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October 2023

Nightcrawling

Leila Mottley

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK

A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, author of There There).


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