A young girl caught up by poverty and policing.
Nightcrawling is the story of seventeen-year-old Kiara desperately trying to keep the crumbling roof of their Oakland apartment over the heads of herself, her older brother, and the young abandoned neighbor boy, whose efforts lead her to become embroiled in a police scandal.
Nightcrawling is a story of struggling to survive against impossible odds and impossible choices – content note: it is not a happy story. The writing is gorgeous, author Leila Mottley is a poet laureate and it shows. What makes this book even more impressive is Mottley began writing it as a seventeen-year-old herself.
Nightcrawling is a remarkable debut that just made the Booker Prize longlist; Mottley is the youngest author to ever make the list at age 20!
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