Nightcrawling

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 THE YOUNGEST EVER BOOKER NOMINEE THE 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 _______________ When there is no choice, all you have left to do is walk. Kiara Johnson does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. With her mother in a halfway house and an older brother who devotes his time and money to a recording studio, she fends for herself and for nine-year-old Trevor, whose own mother is prone to disappearing for days at a time. As the landlord of their apartment block threatens to raise their rent, Kiara finds herself walking the streets after dark, determined to survive in a world that refuses to