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Why was the summer air thick with buzz about Nightcrawling? Time for you to find out. Leila Motley’s debut novel is both a stark look at life on the margins and a compulsively readable thriller. Struggling to make rent in East Oakland, Kiara finds herself turning tricks to feed herself and the abandoned child she cares for. When an investigation reveals her to be a key witness in a scandal involving local cops, the stakes get even higher. The former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland is a dazzling new talent. —Allen Falls
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