Nightcrawling

book title

Nightcrawling



Leila Mottley
Published Date : 2022
Amazon

Description

A dazzling novel about a young black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system–the debut of a blazingly original voice that “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, bestselling author of There There) Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex optimistically called the Regal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus clings to his dream of rap stardom, Kiara hunts for work to pay their rent–which has more than doubled–and to keep the nine-year-old boy next door, abandoned by his mother, safe and fed. One night, what begins as a drunken misunderstanding with a stranger turns into the job Kiara never imagined wanting but now desperately needs: nightcrawling. And her world breaks open even further when her name surfaces in an investigation that exposes her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland Police Department. Full of edge, raw beauty, electrifying intensity, and piercing vulnerability, Nightcrawling marks the stunning arrival of a voice unlike any we have heard before.


word

word
Kiara
Oakland
Marcus
There
voice
Tommy
prison
stardom
squalid
dazzling
piercing
heard
key
system–the
intensity
safe
nine-year-old
author
begins
rent–which
hunts
breaks
scraping
A
job
swallows
desperately
abandoned
Police
page
boy
bursts
dream
high
stranger
misunderstanding
optimistically
Nightcrawling
doubled–and
And
One
marks
turns
failure
work
barely
fractured
mother
young
justice
exposes
Regal-Hi
streets
woman
called
clings
scandal
world
debut
complex
drunken
death
Department
bestselling
dropped
open
fed
original
vulnerability
stunning
imagined
investigation
headlong
beauty
door
school
massive
brother
witness
blazingly
But
East
arrival
edge
walks
night
electrifying
wanting
family
apartment
pay
raw
stumbles
unlike
surfaces
Both
rap
seams
Full
black
nightcrawling
Orange

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