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Also by Leila Mottley:

The Girls Who Grew Big, July 2025
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Nightcrawling, June 2022
Hardcover / e-Book

NIGHTCRAWLING
By: Leila Mottley

A Novel

Knopf
June 2022
On Sale: June 7, 2022
Featuring: Kiara
288 pages
ISBN: 0593318935
EAN: 9780593318935
Kindle: B09DK8M4VL
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life

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.