Nightcrawling
A novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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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).A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME, GOODREADS
Kiara and her brother, Marcus, are scraping by in an 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. Her world breaks open even further when her name surfaces in an investigation that exposes her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland Police Department.
Rich with raw beauty, electrifying intensity, and piercing vulnerability, Nightcrawling marks the stunning arrival of a voice unlike any we have heard before.
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The swimming pool is filled with dog shit and Dee s laughter mocks us at dawn. I ve been telling her all week that she s looking like the crackhead she is, laughing at the same joke like it s gonna change. Dee didn t seem to mind that her boyfriend left her, didn t even seem to care when he showed up poolside after making his rounds to every dumpster in the neighborhood last Tuesday, finding feces wrapped up in plastic bags. We heard the splashes at three a.m., followed by his shouts about Dee s unfaithful ass. But mostly we heard Dee s cackles, reminding us how hard it is to sleep when you can t distinguish your own footsteps from your neighbor s.None of us have ever set foot in the pool for as long as I ve been here; maybe because Vernon, the landlord, has never once cleaned it, but mostly because nobody ever taught none of us how to delight in the water, how to swim without gasping for breath, how to love our hair when it is matted and chlorine-soaked. The idea of drowning doesn t bother me, though, since we re made of water anyway. It s kind of like your body overflowing with itself. I think I d rather go that way than in some haze on the floor of a crusty apartment, my heart out-pumping itself and then stopping.
This morning is different. The way Dee s laugh swirls upward into a high-pitched sort of scream before it wanders into her bellow. When I open the door, she s standing there, by the railing, like always. Except today she faces toward the apartment door and the pool keeps her backlit so I can t see her face, can only see the way her cheekbones bob like apples in her hollow skin. I close the door before she sees me.
Some mornings I peek my head into Dee s unlocked door just to make sure she s still breathing, writhing in her sleep. In some ways I don t mind her neurotic laughing fits because they tell me she s alive, her lungs haven t quit on her yet. If Dee s still laughing, not everything has gone to shit.
The knock on our apartment is
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two fists, four pounds, and I should have known it was coming, but it still makes me jump back from the door. It ain t that I didn t see Vernon making his rounds or the flyer flipping up and drifting back into place on Dee s door as she stared at it, still cackling. I turn and look at my brother, Marcus, on the couch snoring, his nose squirming up to meet his brows.
He sleeps like a newborn, always making faces, his head tilting so I can see his profile, where the tattoo remains taut and smooth. Marcus has a tattoo of my fingerprint just below his left ear and, when he smiles, I find myself drawn right to it, like another eye. Not that either of us has been smiling lately, but the image of it the memory of the freshly rippling ink below his grin keeps me coming back to him. Keeps me hoping. Marcus s arms are lined in tattoos, but my fingerprint is the only one on his neck. He told me it was the most painful one he d ever gotten.
He got the tattoo when I turned seventeen and it was the first day I ever thought he might just love me more than anything, more than his own skin. But now, three months from my eighteenth birthday, when I look at my quivering fingerprint on the edge of his jaw, I feel naked, known. If Marcus ended up bloodied in the street, it wouldn t take much to identify him by the traces of me on his body.
I reach for the doorknob, mumbling, I got it, as if Marcus was ever actually gonna put feet to floor this early. On the other side of the wall, Dee s laughter seeps into my gums like salt water, absorbed right into the fleshy part of my mouth. I shake my head and turn back to the door, to my own slip of paper taped to the orange paint. You don t have to read one of these papers to
He sleeps like a newborn, always making faces, his head tilting so I can see his profile, where the tattoo remains taut and smooth. Marcus has a tattoo of my fingerprint just below his left ear and, when he smiles, I find myself drawn right to it, like another eye. Not that either of us has been smiling lately, but the image of it the memory of the freshly rippling ink below his grin keeps me coming back to him. Keeps me hoping. Marcus s arms are lined in tattoos, but my fingerprint is the only one on his neck. He told me it was the most painful one he d ever gotten.
He got the tattoo when I turned seventeen and it was the first day I ever thought he might just love me more than anything, more than his own skin. But now, three months from my eighteenth birthday, when I look at my quivering fingerprint on the edge of his jaw, I feel naked, known. If Marcus ended up bloodied in the street, it wouldn t take much to identify him by the traces of me on his body.
I reach for the doorknob, mumbling, I got it, as if Marcus was ever actually gonna put feet to floor this early. On the other side of the wall, Dee s laughter seeps into my gums like salt water, absorbed right into the fleshy part of my mouth. I shake my head and turn back to the door, to my own slip of paper taped to the orange paint. You don t have to read one of these papers to
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Autoren-Porträt von Leila Mottley
LEILA MOTTLEY is the author of the novel Nightcrawling, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick and New York Times best seller. She is also the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. She was born and raised in Oakland, where she continues to live.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Leila Mottley
- 2022, Internationale Ausgabe, 288 Seiten, Masse: 15,5 x 23,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: KNOPF
- ISBN-10: 1524712205
- ISBN-13: 9781524712204
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
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A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME, GOODREADSBOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE A New York Times Writer to Watch THE CENTER FOR FICTION'S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE NOMINEE Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Astonishing . . . Nightcrawling heralds a bold new voice in fiction. Associated Press
Mottley writes with a lyrical abandon. New York Times Book Review
Nightcrawling really is a powerful, poignant story worth your attention . . . Revelatory . . . My god that voice. It s sometimes too painful to keep reading, but always too urgent to stop. Ron Charles, Washington Post
Dazzling and electrifying . . . A spellbinding story and a Catcher in the Rye for a new generation.
Booker Prize Judges 2022
I would sell my soul to read this book again for the first time.
Jack Edwards, Booktok Influencer via TikTok @jackbenedwards
A lyrical page-turner [by] that rare young phenom who isn t a product of privilege.
Los Angeles Times, Gift Guide
Nightcrawling bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole. Tommy Orange, author of There There
Unflinching . . . Essential to understanding how maddeningly elusive justice can be. San Francisco Chronicle
Nightcrawling is a scorching, incredibly readable book . . . Get ready. Or don t. It doesn t matter. Leila Mottley is here. Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
Nightcrawling marks the dazzling arrival of a young writer with a voice and vision you won t easily get out of your head . . . When asked how to write in a world dominated by a white culture, Toni Morrison once responded: By trying to alter language, simply to free it up, not to repress or confine it . . . Tease it. Blast its racist straitjacket. At a time when structural imbalances of capital,
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heath, gender, and race deepen divides, the young American Leila Mottley s debut novel is a searing testament to the liberated spirit and explosive ingenuity of such storytelling. The Guardian
Mottley accesses the feelings one sometimes has while reading Dickens, the breathless sense that some massive unfairness is being inflicted on a good and innocent person . . . Kiara s true outlet for hope is in the makeshift family of friends and relatives she manages to hold together. From such connections Mottley s seemingly fatalistic book finds its buoyant humanity. Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
Leila Mottley s commanding debut, inspired by the life events of one woman s struggle for body and soul against crushing exploitation, is fierce and devastating, rendered with electrifying urgency by this colossal young talent. Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
A searing indictment of an unjust system.
TIME
Mottley s writing is electric and stylish, which makes her subject matter especially chilling. Teen Vogue
Kiara s voice simultaneously childlike, lyrical, and fierce is the most unforgettable element of Nightcrawling. Mother Jones
Fast money, crooked cops, and dire consequences are at the forefront of Mottley s electric debut novel . . . A shocking page-turner. Elle
With its powerful poetry and courageous, unsparing vision, Nightcrawling is more than just a magnificent debut novel. It is a bid, by this prodigiously gifted young writer, to heal a broken world. Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness
Leila Mottley has an extraordinary gift. She writes with the humility and sparkle of a child, but with the skill and deft touch of a wizened, seasoned storyteller. James McBride, author of Deacon King Kong
Electric . . . Not to be missed. Shondaland
So compelling that one cannot put it down . . . Through Kiara, Mottley gives voice to countless Black women and girls who remain invisible, vulnerable, and dehumanized by a system that deems them disposable . . . We need Kiara s story, but more importantly, we need young writers like Leila Mottley . . . A testimony to hope, resilience, and love. Liber: A Feminist Review
Leila Mottley is a name to pay attention to . . . Nightcrawling will make you desperate, it will make you awed, it will make you read anything that Mottley should ever choose to write. CrimeReads
Leila Mottley has a poet s delicate touch when she tells us the most brutal, heart-crushing truths. This is an electrifying debut. Dave Eggers, author of The Every
A remarkable debut novel . . . Incendiary . . . The captivating, distinctively voiced Kiara is a young black American who can shoot hoops and skateboard, but her literary antecedents are Zola s Thérèse Raquin, Victor Hugo s Fantine, and Elizabeth Gaskell s Ruth. The Sunday Times (U.K.)
This is an accomplished first novel with a remarkable heroine whom the reader wills on every step of the way . . . Both a searing depiction of sexual exploitation and a gripping account of a struggle for survival . . . Hard-hitting but never heavy-handed. The Economist
Unflinching, poetic, and deeply resonant, this stunning debut from Oakland teen Leila Mottley marks the arrival of an extraordinary new voice. Woman s Own (U.K.)
Feels vital in this cultural moment . . . Fires on all cylinders. Sydney Morning Herald
Stunning . . . Kiara is an unforgettable dynamo, and her story brings critical human depth to conversations about police sexual violence. Booklist (starred)
A work of devastating social realism . . . executed with relentless momentum . . . A powerful discourse on the dehumanizing effects policing can have on marginalized communities, bodies, and minds (and especially on Black women). Library Journal (starred)
Bold and beautiful . . . This heartrending story makes for a powerful testament to a Black woman s resilience. Publishers Weekly (starred)
Lush, immersive. Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Moved me to tears . . . Mottley is a master at describing scenes. iNews
Mottley accesses the feelings one sometimes has while reading Dickens, the breathless sense that some massive unfairness is being inflicted on a good and innocent person . . . Kiara s true outlet for hope is in the makeshift family of friends and relatives she manages to hold together. From such connections Mottley s seemingly fatalistic book finds its buoyant humanity. Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal
Leila Mottley s commanding debut, inspired by the life events of one woman s struggle for body and soul against crushing exploitation, is fierce and devastating, rendered with electrifying urgency by this colossal young talent. Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
A searing indictment of an unjust system.
TIME
Mottley s writing is electric and stylish, which makes her subject matter especially chilling. Teen Vogue
Kiara s voice simultaneously childlike, lyrical, and fierce is the most unforgettable element of Nightcrawling. Mother Jones
Fast money, crooked cops, and dire consequences are at the forefront of Mottley s electric debut novel . . . A shocking page-turner. Elle
With its powerful poetry and courageous, unsparing vision, Nightcrawling is more than just a magnificent debut novel. It is a bid, by this prodigiously gifted young writer, to heal a broken world. Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptiness
Leila Mottley has an extraordinary gift. She writes with the humility and sparkle of a child, but with the skill and deft touch of a wizened, seasoned storyteller. James McBride, author of Deacon King Kong
Electric . . . Not to be missed. Shondaland
So compelling that one cannot put it down . . . Through Kiara, Mottley gives voice to countless Black women and girls who remain invisible, vulnerable, and dehumanized by a system that deems them disposable . . . We need Kiara s story, but more importantly, we need young writers like Leila Mottley . . . A testimony to hope, resilience, and love. Liber: A Feminist Review
Leila Mottley is a name to pay attention to . . . Nightcrawling will make you desperate, it will make you awed, it will make you read anything that Mottley should ever choose to write. CrimeReads
Leila Mottley has a poet s delicate touch when she tells us the most brutal, heart-crushing truths. This is an electrifying debut. Dave Eggers, author of The Every
A remarkable debut novel . . . Incendiary . . . The captivating, distinctively voiced Kiara is a young black American who can shoot hoops and skateboard, but her literary antecedents are Zola s Thérèse Raquin, Victor Hugo s Fantine, and Elizabeth Gaskell s Ruth. The Sunday Times (U.K.)
This is an accomplished first novel with a remarkable heroine whom the reader wills on every step of the way . . . Both a searing depiction of sexual exploitation and a gripping account of a struggle for survival . . . Hard-hitting but never heavy-handed. The Economist
Unflinching, poetic, and deeply resonant, this stunning debut from Oakland teen Leila Mottley marks the arrival of an extraordinary new voice. Woman s Own (U.K.)
Feels vital in this cultural moment . . . Fires on all cylinders. Sydney Morning Herald
Stunning . . . Kiara is an unforgettable dynamo, and her story brings critical human depth to conversations about police sexual violence. Booklist (starred)
A work of devastating social realism . . . executed with relentless momentum . . . A powerful discourse on the dehumanizing effects policing can have on marginalized communities, bodies, and minds (and especially on Black women). Library Journal (starred)
Bold and beautiful . . . This heartrending story makes for a powerful testament to a Black woman s resilience. Publishers Weekly (starred)
Lush, immersive. Kirkus Reviews (starred)
Moved me to tears . . . Mottley is a master at describing scenes. iNews
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