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100 1 a| Mottley, Leila,d| 2002-e| author.=| ^A1450133;

245 10 a| Nightcrawling /c| Leila Mottley.;

246 3 a| Night crawling;

250 a| First edition.;

264 1 a| New York :b| Alfred A. Knopf,c| 2022.;

300 a| 271 pages ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| textb| txt2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediatedb| n2| rdamedia;

338 a| volumeb| nc2| rdacarrier;

500 a| "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso;

500 a| "Oprah's Book Club 2022"--Jacket;

520 a| "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"--c| Provided by publisher;

650 0 a| African Americansv| Fiction.=| ^A83332;

650 0 a| Siblingsv| Fiction.=| ^A64503;

650 0 a| Witnessesv| Fiction.=| ^A591766;

650 0 a| Scandalsv| Fiction.=| ^A989476;

651 0 a| Oakland (Calif.)v| Fiction.=| ^A635437;

650 6 a| Écrivains noirs.;

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Nightcrawling / Leila Mottley.

Author/creator	Mottley, Leila, 2002- author.
Format	Book
Edition	First edition.
Publication	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Copyright Date	©2022
Description	271 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects	African Americans--Fiction. Siblings--Fiction. Witnesses--Fiction. Scandals--Fiction. Police--California. --Oakland. --Fiction. Écrivains noirs. Oakland (Calif.)--Fiction.

Variant title	Night crawling
Abstract	"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
General note	"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso
General note	"Oprah's Book Club 2022"--Jacket
Issued in other form	Online version: Mottley, Leila, 2002- Nightcrawling. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022] 9780593318942
Genre/form	Urban fiction.
Genre/form	Novels.
Genre/form	Urban fiction.
Genre/form	Social problem fiction.
Genre/form	Novels.
Genre/form	Romans.
LCCN	2021026295
ISBN	9780593318935 (hardcover)
ISBN	0593318935 (hardcover)
ISBN	(ebook)
Standard identifier#	40031215682

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