Questions of identity, place, and belonging have long characterized Lalami work. Her third book, The Moor Account, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a historical novel about a Moroccan slave brought to America by a conquistador. In her latest novel, The Other Americans, a finalist for the National Book Award, Lalami uses a panoply of voices to animate a Mojave town where the fates of immigrants, African Americans, war veterans, and members of other groups intersect in ways that range from banal to intimate to violent. coque huawei Most of the characters in the novel struggle with acceptance in a country that pulls them in with promises of freedom and economic mobility, only to later push them Custodia Cellulare Impermeabile Custodia Impermeabile GPS away. In Conditional Citizens, Lalami adopts a different approach. 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