Nightcrawling

A novel

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Beschreibung

NEW YORK TIMES 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 There There).<br><br>A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME, GOODREADS<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, Nightcrawling marks the stunning arrival of a voice unlike any we have heard before.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781524712204

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

19 x 160 x 235 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Verlag / Hersteller

Knopf