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At once agonising and mesmerising, Nightcrawling presents a haunting vision of marginalised young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world.‘When there is no choice, all you have left to do is walk.’Determined to survive in a world that refuses to protect her, a 17-year-old girl finds herself walking the mean streets of Oakland after dark. When she is picked up by the police, the gruesome deal they offer in exchange for her freedom lands her at the centre of a media storm - and facing a terrible choice. If she agrees to testify, she could help expose the corruption of a police department. But honesty comes at a price - one that could leave her family vulnerable to retaliation, and endanger everyone she loves."... a powerful, poignant story worth your attention... [Mottley] wastes no time with subtlety. She’s describing people whose lives are a series of shocks and humiliations that arrive with such regularity that they’ve become routine ... In these opening pages, Mottley effectively outlines the perilous economy of poverty in America. It’s a dramatic accounting that gives tangible form to what millions of invisible people endure amid so much bounty ... My god - that

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Author

Leila Mottley; Overdrive Inc

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593318935

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction