02421cam a2200421 i 4500 605789420 TxAuBib 20220920120000.0 210528s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021026295 9780593318935 hbk. $28.00 0593318935 hbk. $28.00 (OCoLC)1255520425 TxAuBib rda Mottley, Leila, 2002- Nightcrawling / Leila Mottley. Night crawling. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. 271 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi book"--Copyright page. "A novel"--Jacket. "Oprah's Book Club 2022" --Dust jacket. "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"--Provided by publisher. 20220920. Oakland (Calif.) Police Department Fiction. Brothers and sisters Fiction. African American teenagers Fiction. Sex workers Fiction. Witnesses Fiction. Police corruption California Oakland Fiction. Police California Oakland Fiction. Oakland (Calif) Fiction. Urban fiction.