After her father is fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver outside the family's Mojave Desert diner, Nora Guerraoui returns home and, alongside Detective Coleman and her old classmate Jeremy, works through the investigation while confronting her Moroccan immigrant family's history.
Books mentioned in The Other Americans (5)
Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm: “Nielsen to hear her read from 'Rapunzel,' but nobody wanted to sit next to me”
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling: “I devoured the Harry Potter books; she'd given up on them after the first two”
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin: “I couldn't give up her copy of The Fire Next Time on my bedside table, the margins filled with notes”
The Odyssey by Homer: “before confronting a class of bored prep-school kids making their way through The Odyssey”
Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano: “seeing me curled up in an armchair with a copy of Memory of Fire, came right up to me and introduced himself”