The Second Saturday Book Discussion Group brings great fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary books to life, exploring those shared lives together.
Join the Second Saturday monthly book discussion online using Zoom.
The upcoming book selection will be available for pick up any time after the current month’s discussion, during open hours at the Sequim Branch Library. Copies of the book will be available on a first come, first serve basis.
Registration is required to receive Zoom login.
Library staff and volunteers will moderate the discussion. Sign in via Zoom link to see other participants, or call in to join the meeting. No internet required to connect to the discussion by phone.
The Other Americans
by Laila
Lalami
Late one spring night, Driss
Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened
intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The
repercussions of his death bring together
a diverse cast of characters: Guerraoui's daughter Nora, a
jazz composer who returns to the small town in the Mojave she
thought she'd left for good; his widow Maryam, who still pines after
her life in the old country; Efrain,
an undocumented witness whose fear of deportation prevents
him from coming forward; Jeremy, a former classmate of Nora's and a
veteran of the Iraq war; Coleman, a detective who is slowly discovering
her son's secrets; Anderson, a neighbor trying to reconnect with his
family; and the murdered man himself. As the characters tell their stories, the
invisible connections that tie them together--even while they remain
deeply divided by race, religion, or class--are slowly revealed.