LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022歐普拉讀書會選書！奧克蘭青年桂冠詩人，文壇新銳莫特利以家鄉真實事件為藍本寫就。出身失能家庭，在困境中掙扎求生的非裔女孩，一樁交易將她置於風暴中心，卻也讓她成了警界醜聞的唯一證人，為此，無數雙黑手正朝她伸去。'GROUNDBREAKING . . . THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THE BIG BOOKS OF 2022'STYLIST'AN ELECTRIFYING DEBUT'DAVE EGGERS'MARKS THE INTRODUCTION OF A REMARKABLE NEW TALENT'OPRAH DAILY'TRULY BEAUTIFUL AND POWERFUL'RUTH OZEKI'LEILA MOTTLEY'S WRITING ERUPTS AND FLOWS LIKE LAVA'TOMMY ORANGEWhen 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 p
歐普拉讀書會選書！奧克蘭青年桂冠詩人，文壇新銳莫特利以家鄉真實事件為藍本寫就。出身失能家庭，在困境中掙扎求生的非裔女孩，一樁交易將她置於風暴中心，卻也讓她成了警界醜聞的唯一證人，為此，無數雙黑手正朝她伸去。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 i
歐普拉讀書會選書！奧克蘭青年桂冠詩人，文壇新銳莫特利以家鄉真實事件為藍本寫就。出身失能家庭，在困境中掙扎求生的非裔女孩，一樁交易將她置於風暴中心，卻也讓她成了警界醜聞的唯一證人，為此，無數雙黑手正朝她伸去。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 Royal-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 witnes
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. QUIP (Queers in Print) is an anthology of writing by young queer authors. Through a series of five workshops, seven teenagers from the Bay Area constructed a community of art,
