Leila Mottley - Böcker

"Det är en häpnadsväckande mogen debut." Dagens Nyheter "Hon förtjänar alla sina hyllningar. Nattvarelser är överväldigande och vacker." Aftonbladet "Det är som om författaren har tagit makten över verkligheten. Imponerand...

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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 But while Marcus clings to his dream of rap st...

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 THE YOUNGEST EVER BOOKER NOMINEE THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _______________ Mottley attempts to do for Oakland something of what The Wire did for Baltimore' THE TIMES 'A soul-searching port...

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Kiaras liv ser inte ut som andra sjuttonåringars. Med en mamma på rehab och en storebror som drömmer om att bli rapstjärna är Kiara tvungen att ta hand om både sig själv och den övergivna nioåriga grannkillen Trevor. När hyran i deras slitna kvart...

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A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara and her brother Marcus are barely scra...

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A poignant and rousing debut book of poetry from the acclaimed, best-selling author of the novel Nightcrawling, also the former Youth Poet Laureate of Oakland, CA. Leila Mottley follows her trailblazing first novel with a perfectly pitched first c...

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A dazzling, unforgettable novel about a young black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-a debut that announces a blazingly original voice. Kiara and her brother Marcus are barely scra...

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OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORK TIMES WRITER TO WATCH A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system-the debut of a blazingly original voice and "a so...

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When there is no choice, all you have left to do is walk. Kiara Johnson does not know what it is to live as a normal seventeen-year-old. With her mother in a rehab facility and an older brother who devotes his time and money to a recording studio,...

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Ein Roman über die schlimmsten Seiten einer Gesellschaft und den Kampf einer jungen Frau für alle, die sie liebt Die siebzehnjährige Kiara lebt mit ihrem älteren Bruder Marcus in einem heruntergekommenen Apartment in East Oakland, Kalifornien. Die...

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Ein Roman über die schlimmsten Seiten einer Gesellschaft und den Kampf einer jungen Frau für alle, die sie liebt Die siebzehnjährige Kiara lebt mit ihrem älteren Bruder Marcus in einem heruntergekommenen Apartment in East Oakland, Kalifornien. Die...

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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. But while Marcus clings to his dream of rap s...

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Kiaras liv ser inte ut som andra sjuttonåringars. Med en mamma på rehab och en storebror som drömmer om att bli rapstjärna är Kiara tvungen att ta hand om både sig själv och den övergivna nioåriga grannkillen Trevor. När hyran i deras slitna kvart...

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