Nightcrawling: A Novel

"High school dropout Kiara Johnson has a lot on her plate – she has rent and bills to pay while caring for her brother and her young neighbor who lives next door. So she turns to something she never expected she would do to make ends meet: nightcrawling, or in other words, sex work. Through her work, she sees her city from new perspectives – ones that hold the joy, pain and resilience of its people despite failing infrastructure and corrupt police. Leila Mottley was just 17 when she began writing this debut novel, inspired by true events in the Oakland Police Department."