A review by michellechien930
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

4.0

"Nightcrawling" by Leila Mottley has such an interesting prose and an intrinsic way of setting the scene- just so that the beautiful writing slightly dims in comparison to the dark subject matter, in which Mottley writes about social justice, police violence, sexism, racism, sex work, etc. It's an important book and expertly written, focusing on 17 year old Kiara, who navigates through dark waters of prostitution while later coming across a police scandal (inspired by real-life events of the Oakland PD scandal), where events transpire out of her control. It's a dark and very gritty, but depressingly realistic book, where the importance lays in the awareness of social surroundings and criticism of the justice system.