TY - BOOK AU - Mottley,Leila TI - Nightcrawling SN - 9781526634559 U1 - 813.6 23 PY - 2022/// CY - London, UK PB - Bloomsbury KW - Families KW - Fiction KW - Survival KW - Teenagers KW - African Americans KW - Brothers and sisters KW - Witnesses KW - Police KW - California KW - Oakland KW - Police corruption KW - Oakland (Calif.) KW - US & CAN fiction KW - Urban fiction KW - lcgft KW - Novels N1 - "First published in 2022 in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York" --Title page verso N2 - 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 ER -