Nightcrawling

<b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, author of <i>There There</i>).</b><br><br>A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME, </i>GOODREADS<br></b><br>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<br><br>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.<br><br>Rich with raw beauty, electrifying intensity, and piercing vulnerability, <i>Nightcrawling</i> marks the stunning arrival of a voice unlike any we have heard before.