Nightcrawling [electronic resource] : Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 - the youngest ever Booker nominee
Leila Mottley2022
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 - THE YOUNGEST EVER BOOKER NOMINEE
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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' Mottley attempts to do for Oakland something of what The Wire did for
Baltimore ' THE TIMES
'A soul-searching portrait of survival and hope' OPRAH WINFREY
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When there is no choice, all you have left to do is walk.
Kiara Johnson does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old.
With her mother in a halfway house and an older brother who devotes his time and
money to a recording studio, she fends for herself - and for nine-year-old
Trevor, whose own mother is prone to disappearing for days at a time. As the
landlord of their apartment block threatens to raise their rent, Kiara finds
herself walking the streets after dark, determined to survive in a world that
refuses to protect her.
Then one night Kiara is picked up by two police officers, and the gruesome deal
she is offered in exchange for her freedom lands...
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Author:
Leila Mottley, Author
Imprint:
United Kingdom : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (288)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781526634542
Language:
English
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BRN:
438401
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