02703cam a2200481 i 4500 1327715982 OCoLC 20240326150738.0 220419t20222022nyu d 000 f und d 9780593607879 0593607872 (OCoLC)1327715982 (OCoLC)1308412129 (OCoLC)1313942207 AJM n-us-ca Mottley, Leila, 2002- author. 16227 Nightcrawling : a novel / Leila Mottley. Night crawling First large print edition. New York : Random House Large Print, [2022] ©2022 387 pages (large print) ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier large print "Oprah's Book Club 2022"--Cover "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 African Americans Fiction. 10388 Siblings Fiction. 9800 Witnesses Fiction. 12558 Scandals Fiction. 15840 Police California Oakland Fiction. 16228 Police corruption Fiction. 6923 Oakland (Calif.) Fiction. 16229 Large type books. 2928 Urban fiction. lcgft 16230 Social problem fiction. lcgft 6158 Psychological fiction. lcgft 856 Domestic fiction. lcgft 61 Novels. lcgft 50 .b175485331 ddc BOOK 29421 29421 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-03-26 17.00 1 MOTT 65918 2024-04-18 2024-04-03 2024-03-26 BOOK 1