Nightcrawling

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Call Number: Fiction / Mottley, Leila, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Mottley, Leila
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Mottley, Leila	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Mottley, Leila	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Mottley, Leila	4-week checkout	Due 04-19-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Mottley, Leila	4-week checkout	Due 05-15-2024

"Oprah's book club 2022" --dust jacket.
"A Borzoi book."
"A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-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 now more than doubled-and to keep the 9-year-old boy next door, abandoned by his mother, safe and fed. What begins as a drunken misunderstanding with a stranger one night soon becomes the job Kiara never wanted 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Beautifully Written But Disturbing submitted by Beth Manuel on August 10, 2022, 3:03pm There was a lot of street violence and sexual abuse in this book. The author was 17 when she started writing it. She uses powerful imagery and takes us into a very sad world where corruption and abuse are the norms. I couldn't help but think that a lot of what this writer presented to us was from experience. She did in fact embellish a crime that occurred in the Oakland area as part of her plot. The protagonist had a very harrowing life but the story itself was well written.