Coleman interviews Anderson, who owns the bowling alley next to Driss’ diner, about why there are always fights there on Friday nights when people come from all over town for karaoke night at Driss’ place. She runs into Jeremy in a nearby bar and they flirt he’s been in love with her since high school but has kept it a secret because of their age difference (they were both students at the same high school). Nora moves into her father’s desert cabin, while she decides what she wants to do with the rest of her life. Salma is envious and the two sisters squabble.

Nora discovers that her father left a large sum of money only to her in his will. Jeremy bails his friend Fierro out of jail for smashing up his ex-wife’s car, and insists that he go to an anger management group. Efraín’s wife Marisela pressures him to go to the police but he refuses because of traumatic memories of Driss haunting him from when they were children together in Mexico City. He bought the diner with insurance money and it is now his livelihood. Driss’ first business, a donut shop, was burned down after 9/11. They moved to America amid political violence in 1980s Morocco. Nora believes that the attack was racially motivated. In this passage, Detective Coleman interviews the family. Jeremy lost his mother when he was young, so he understands what Nora is experiencing because of a similar experience in his own life. He reconnects with his former classmate Nora, who is grieving over her loss. A police officer named Jeremy Gorecki hears about the attack at work, and he visits the victim’s family home. She returns to the small town where she grew up to mourn with her mother Maryam and sister Salma. It was nominated for an award because it’s well written.Ī woman named Nora Guerraoui learns that her father Driss was killed in an accident.

The book explores themes of race, identity, guilt, and grief through multiple perspectives. The Other Americans is a novel about how some people in small town America are affected by the aftermath of a hit and run attack. 1-Page Summary of The Other America Overall Summary

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