Laila Lalami Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/laila-lalami/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:54:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Laila Lalami Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/laila-lalami/ 32 32 38398750 The Other Americans: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/the-other-americans-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/the-other-americans-a-novel/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2019 07:46:48 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12534 Late one evening, Driss, an older man, is hit and killed in a dark intersection near his restaurant in a small town in California. His death is at the center of Laila Lalami’s new novel, The Other Americans. She assembles Driss’s family, the police, a potential witness, and nearby business owners—each with their own perspective—and […]

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