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Nightcrawling

Leila Mottley

Start date: October 1, 2025

Finish date: October 31, 2025

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* October 2025 Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
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Oct 11, 2025 ♥ Sandi ❣ added it

Shelves: debut, cultural, contemporary, family, dnf-maybe-later-discard, social-issues, author-under-35, ya-or-coming-of-age, based-on-truth, didn-t-care-for

As much as I wanted to, I just could not relate to this book. I wanted to like it, but finally after trying three times to get into the story, both by print copy and audio, I had to DNF this one a third of the way in.

The essence of the story is a young 17 year old black girl trying to make it in Oakland. Her brother is a bum - only wanting to work on a never happening music career - giving no support to his sister or towards any bills. Her mother in prison, her father out of the picture - dead ...more

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Jan 06, 2024 Allen rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Sep 30, 2025 Cheryl rated it liked it

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