LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 - THE YOUNGEST EVER BOOKER NOMINEETHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________-Mottley attempts to do for Oakland something of what The Wire did for Baltimore'' THE TIMES''A soul-searching portrait of survival and hope'' OPRAH WINFREY_______________We-ll 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 can-t escape.Kiara does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. With her mother in a halfway house, she fends for herself - and for nine-year-old 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 her.Nightcrawling is an unforgettable novel about
