LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022- THE YOUNGEST EVER BOOKER NOMINEE THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ___ '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 ___ We'll laugh because we can, until the sun disintegrates and nighttime threatens to set us free just to capture us again,__back into the things we can't escape. 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. Nightcrawling is an unforgettable novel about young people navigating the