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).
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los
Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME, GOODREADS
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.
Rich with raw beauty, electrifying intensity, and piercing
vulnerability, Nightcrawling marks the stunning arrival of a voice
unlike any we have heard before.
