Nightcrawling 2022
- American literature, New York Times bestseller, African Americans, Fiction
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Contemporary, grave, classical in form and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Leila Mottley
- First published
- 2022
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Vintage, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780593318935
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Leila Mottley is the author of the novel *Nightcrawling*, an Oprah’s Book Club pick and New York Times best seller, and the poetry collection *woke up no light*. Her sophomore novel, *The Girls Who Grew Big,* came out in June 2025. She was also the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. She was born and raised in Oakland, where she continues to live. ([Source](https://www.leilamottley.com/about))
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