Then I began to think about the motivations for the hit-and-run. The same summer my father got sick, there was a spate of hate crimes by white nationalists. So the story became more than just a family grieving the loss of their father, but also a mystery centered around why this immigrant was killed. And I thought the story could be a way of marrying grief and racism together in the same story.
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From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor's Account-- a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a murder mystery, and a love story, all of it informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture.
Carve out some reading time before you pick up Laila Lalami's new novel The Other Americans. You won't want to get up from your chair for some time, maybe even until you've reached the last page. You're in the hands of a maestra of literary fiction, someone who has combined a riveting police procedural with a sensitive examination of contemporary life in California's Mojave Desert region.
However, it wasn't until the kicker in a chapter nearly two-thirds of the way through that I put down The Other Americans so I could think. A longtime resident of the Yucca Valley says, of immigrants and other newcomers, "They didn't ask if we wanted them here. They just came."
It's an arresting way to remind readers that all of the residents in Yucca Valley "just came," too. The original people who lived there were, of course, Native Americans. After them came the Spanish, who were pushed aside by Northern European descendants looking for "that do-re-mi." Yet the American citizens today who are anti-immigrant, pro-border wall staunchly believe that they and theirs were the first ones to arrive, whether their families have been in place for generations, or just a handful of years.
We expected that, on seeing the title The Other Americans, written about a Moroccan-American family. What Lalami does that isn't expected: She shows how we are all "other," not just to our fellows, but to ourselves. A person capable of a ghastly crime might also be capable of deep feeling for other creatures. People who were once closer than lovers can drift apart, and lovers can become strangers within weeks, or decades.
For those who read this excellent novel as a mystery, there's a conclusion, a "perp," if you will. But reading it as a testament to our modern dilemma may be more satisfying, and, in that case, the conclusion might lie in the section where Nora realizes she's not the only person in the family whose life isn't exactly as she wished it would be. Her mother, she thinks, "spent years trying to mold me into someone she could be proud of, but I had been so busy breaking out of that mold I hadn't noticed all the ways in which I was already like her." The Other Americans reminds us that our country both makes and breaks molds regularly, and should probably do more of the latter. After all, it's where we started.
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Aik Thi Laila is a Pakistani television series directed by Yasir Hussain, and written by Faiza Iftikhar. It stars Iqra Aziz, Yasir Hussain , Faysal Quraishi, Hassan Ahmed and Maham Amir with Sheheryar Munawar in a cameo appearance. It aired from 8 December 2022 to 12 January 2023, on Express Entertainment.[1]
On 11 August 2022, it reported that Aziz will feature in Hussain's directorial Aik Thi Laila, which is written by screenwriter Faiza Iftikhar. The other cast members were also revealed along with the genre of the series, which will be murder-mystery. Express Tribune reported that the series will revolve around a disappearance case, much like Dua Zehra case.[3][4] The series marked Aziz's comeback to television after 2 years.[5] In conservation with Daily Pakistan, she further reveled that series will have only 5 episodes.[6]
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