***2019 NATIONAL Publication AWARD FINALIST***

***FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE***

From your Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Moor’s Account, here is a timely and powerful book about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant—simultaneously a family group saga, a murder secret, and a love story, informed from the treacherous fault lines of American culture.

Late one spring night time, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant surviving in California, is taking walks across a darkened intersection when he’s killed by about The Additional Americans: A Book a speeding car. The repercussions of his loss of life bring together a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui’s daughter Nora, a jazz composer who earnings to the small town in the Mojave she thought she’d left for good; his widow, Maryam, who still pines after her existence in the outdated country; Efraín, an undocumented witness whose concern with deportation prevents him from coming forward; Jeremy, a vintage friend of Nora’s and an Iraq War veteran; Coleman, a detective who’s slowly finding her son’s secrets; Anderson, a neighbor aiming to reconnect along with his family members; as well as the murdered man himself.

As the characters—deeply divided by competition, religion, and course—tell their stories, connections among them emerge, even as Driss’s family confronts its secrets, a town faces its hypocrisies, and love, messy and unpredictable, exists.