by Leila Mottley · BLOOMSBURY · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781526634573
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«Nightcrawling» is the literary fiction novel by Leila Mottley, published by Bloomsbury in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Kiara Johnson, a young Black woman from Oakland, struggles to get by with her brother Marcus in the Royal-Hi complex and cares for Trevor, a nine-year-old boy. Out of work and with rent skyrocketing, she ends up prostituting herself one night to survive. When her name appears in an investigation, she becomes a witness to a police corruption scandal in Oakland.
It is Leila Mottley's first novel, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller.
It is aimed at adult readers of contemporary literary fiction and book clubs, with a young protagonist and a backdrop of social criticism.
