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Laila Lalami’s ‘Other Americans’ Explores Complexity of Immigrant Experience
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:52:42
Publish Date: 2019-04-05 12:00:00
Description: America embraces me with one arm, but it pushes me away with the other," Laila Lalami wrote in a 2017 New Yorker piece after President Trump instituted his travel ban. Lalami's new novel, "The Other Americans," opens with the hit-and-run murder of a Moroccan immigrant in a present-day Southern California suburb. This event affects nine narrators of various backgrounds, ethnicities and immigration statuses, each of whom shares their own story of being both embraced and pushed away by America. Lalami joins us to talk about her book and what it means to be an immigrant in the US. We want to hear from you, if you're an immigrant, what kind of mixed messages has the U.S. sent you?
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