Nightcrawling

Resumen del libro

Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an East Oakland apartment complex optimistically called the Regal-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 more than doubled--and to keep the nine-year-old boy next door, abandoned by his mother, safe and fed. One night, what begins as a drunken misunderstanding with a stranger turns into the job Kiara never imagined wanting but now desperately needs: nightcrawling. 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.

Rich with raw beauty, electrifying intensity, and piercing vulnerability, Nightcrawling marks the stunning arrival of a voice unlike any we have heard before.

Biografía del autor

Leila Mottley va néixer a Oakland (Califòrnia) lx{0026} x02019;any 2002. El 2018 va ser guardonada amb lx{0026} x02019;Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. Els seus textos han estat publicats a The New York Times i Oprah Daily. Criatures nocturnes, la seva primera novel-la, ha rebut molt bones crítiques i ha estat seleccionada per a diversos premis, entre els quals el Booker; així, sx{0026} x02019;ha convertit en lx{0026} x02019;autora més jove a ser nominada a aquest guardó. La seva escriptura mostra la desigualtat de tracte a les institucions, i de quina manera la literatura ens pot acostar a lx{0026} x02019;alliberament i a la felicitat.