Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley Paperback Book 9781526634573

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 THE YOUNGEST EVER BOOKER NOMINEETHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMottley attempts to do for Oakland something of what The Wire did for Baltimore THE TIMESA soulsearching portrait of survival and hope OPRAH WINFREYWell laugh because we can until the sun disintegrates and nighttime threatens to set us free just to capture us again back into the things we cant escapeKiara does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeenyearold With her mother in a halfway house she fends for herself and for nineyearold Trevor whose own mother disappears for days at a time But as the pressures of rent to pay and mouths to feed increase Kiara finds herself walking the streets after dark determined to survive in a world that refuses to protect herNightcrawling is an unforgettable novel about young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world told with a humanity that is at once agonising and utterly mesmerisingUNFORGETTABLE GUARDIANA MAGNIFICENT DEBUT RUTH OZEKI winner of the Womens Prize for Fiction 2022READERS CANT GET ENOUGH OF NIGHTCRAWLINGNightcrawling is a lyrical masterpiece This book ripped my heart out Unputdownable From the...