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Nightcrawling

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內容簡介 2022布克獎初選入圍！美國奧克蘭青年桂冠詩人莫特利的首部小說正義怎麼脫軌了？說好的最低限度生活呢？☆歐普拉讀書會選書取材自作者家鄉真人真事，揭露弱勢非裔少女的處境：連基本生存都成問題，又怎能奢望尋求社群、家庭和個人幸福？馬可斯和奇雅拉兄妹都是中輟生，雙親不是死了就是在坐牢。哥哥一心想成為饒舌歌手。奇雅拉為了付房租和照看鄰家被母親棄之不顧的男童，不惜上街出賣身體，卻意外成為奧克蘭警局史上最大醜聞的關鍵證人。A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice.Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are barely scraping by in a squalid 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. And 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.Full of edge, raw beauty, electrifying intensity, and piercing vulnerability, Nightcrawling marks the stunning arrival of a voice unlike any we have heard before."

作者介紹

作者介紹 Leila MottleyLeila Mottley is the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and Oprah Daily. She was born and raised in Oakland, where she continues to live. Nightcrawling is her first novel.

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