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 rehab facility 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 her at the centre of a media storm. If she agrees to testify in a grand jury trial,she could help expose the sickening corruption of a police department. But honesty comes at a price - one that could leave her family vulnerable to their retaliation,and endanger everyone she loves.
Nightcrawling is an unforgettable novel about young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world,told with a humanity that is at once agonising and utterly mesmerising.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781526634573Number of pages: 288Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
'A rare and compelling meditation on the powerless... not only a fearless investigation of justice,guilt and prejudice,but an allegory of the potential power of speech,narrative and fiction itself...Nightcrawling marks the dazzling arrival of a young writer with a voice and vision you won't easily get out of your head'- Guardian
'Both a searing depiction of sexual exploitation and a gripping account of a struggle for survival... grimly captivating... rich and inventive'- Economist
'An uncommonly assured debut...Nightcrawling is written with a poet's ear and a novelist's sense of character,structure and ambience'- Observer
'Mottley's fluid,instinctive writing soars... this feels like a remarkable debut,one that holds an illuminating if unflattering mirror to modern America. It is exciting to wonder what might lie ahead for this writer'- Sunday Times
'Kiara is as virtuous and put-upon as any heroine in Dickens. But she is always a lively presence on the page even at her most downtrodden,thanks to her expressive narrative voice... the risks she takes generally pay off so well that one finishes the book grumbling: nobody who has just turned twenty has any business writing this well'- Sunday Telegraph
'Leila Mottley has a poet's delicate touch when she tells us the most brutal,heart-crushing truths. This is an electrifying debut'- Dave Eggers
'This book proves its author is a literary star in the making'- Elle
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