Nightcrawling

Author

Leila Mottley

Call Number

• LARGE TYPE FICTION MOTT (EAS)

Edition

Large print edition.

Publication Information

New York : Random House Large Print, [2022]

Physical Description

387 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.

Summary

"A novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. 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"--

Notes

"Oprah's Book Club 2022"--Cover.