Nightcrawling

Name: Nightcrawling
Author: Leila Mottley
ISBN: 9780593318942

Leila Mottley

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Nightcrawling

Leila Mottley

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#6484 of 8,085 books · #2122 in Crime & Thriller

Longlisted for the Booker Prize (2022).

Nightcrawling won the New York Times Best Seller list and was an Oprah Book Club pick and a Best Book of the Year selection by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME, and Goodreads. Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an 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. 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.

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