Beyond The Book

A Beyond the Book conversation with Laila Lalami recorded live at Koutoubia, a Moroccan restaurant in Los Angeles. Julie Robinson and Laila Lalami discussed with a book club audience her acclaimed novel The Other Americans. Laila offers a great deal of insight into the far-reaching themes in her novel, the architecture required to balance her multiple narrative threads and the importance of minority voices being heard. It was recorded in May 2019.