She also soon meets with policeman Jeremy Gorecki, a high school classmate who had once played with her in the school jazz group. Nora decides that her father’s death was no accident and offers a reward for information about it.
Subsequently, despite Driss’ business success, she was sorry to have left her homeland. Prison was a serious possibility, so Maryam campaigned for them to join her brother in California. When they left Morocco, Driss was a graduate student with dangerous political affections. Maryam and Driss haven’t been happy either. Maryam wishes Nora were more like her sister, Salma, a dentist with a thriving practice, a husband and two kids even though Salma is clearly unhappy. Driss had always proudly supported her musical interests, but her mother, Maryam, still wonders why she chose not to get a medical degree. It begins when Nora Guerraoui wakes up Oakland to the news that her father, Driss, has been killed in a hit-and-run incident on the poorly lit road that runs past his restaurant near the Joshua Tree National Park in the Mojave Desert. Nine of the characters mull over their past with all their hopes and disappointments in the short first-person narrations that comprise this novel.
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