Nightcrawling av Leila Mottley

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<b>LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 </b><b>¿ THE YOUNGEST EVER BOOKER NOMINEE</b><b>THE INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER</b><b>_______________</b><b>¿</b><b>Mottley attempts to do for Oakland something of what <i>The Wire </i>did for Baltimore</b><b>'' </b><i>THE TIMES</i><b>''A soul-searching portrait of survival and hope'' </b>OPRAH WINFREY<b>_______________</b><i>We¿ll laugh because we can, until the sun disintegrates and nighttime threatens </i><i>to set us free just to capture us again, </i><i>back into the things we can¿t escape.</i>Kiara does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. With her mother in a halfway house, she fends for herself ¿ and for nine-year-old Trevor, whose own mother disappears for days at a time. But as the pressures of rent to pay and mouths to feed increase, Kiara finds herself walking the streets after dark, determined to survive in a world that refuses to protect her.<b><i>Nightcrawling</i> is an unforgettable novel about