{"id":44522,"date":"2022-06-27T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=44522"},"modified":"2022-06-11T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:41:19","slug":"oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-nightcrawling-by-leila-mottley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/oprahs-latest-book-club-pick-nightcrawling-by-leila-mottley\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah’s Latest Book Club Pick: ‘Nightcrawling’ by Leila Mottley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join our Best Sellers Club to have certain celebrity book club picks automatically put on hold for you: Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, and Oprah Winfrey. While Reese and Jenna generally announce a new title each month, Oprah\u2019s selections are more sporadic. She has just announced hew newest selection! Reminder that if you join our\u00a0Best Sellers Club<\/a>, you can choose to have these titles automatically put on hold for you.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Oprah Winfrey has selected\u00a0Nightcrawling<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>by Leila Mottley.<\/p>\n

Curious what\u00a0Nightcrawling<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n

A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system\u2014the debut of a blazingly original voice and \u201ca soul-searching portrait of survival and hope\u201d (Oprah Winfrey)<\/em><\/p>\n

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<\/em><\/p>\n

But while Marcus clings to his dream of rap stardom, Kiara hunts for work to pay their rent\u2014which has more than doubled\u2014and 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rich with raw beauty, electrifying intensity, and piercing vulnerability, Nightcrawling marks the stunning arrival of a voice unlike any we have heard before.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Join our\u00a0Best Sellers Club<\/a>\u00a0to have Oprah\u2019s adult selections automatically put on hold for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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