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(0)Leila Mottley
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system. This debut of a blazingly original voice “bursts at the seams of every page and swallows you whole” (Tommy Orange, author of There There).
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker,...
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker,...
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Plata
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
Español
Description
"Kiara Johnson no sabe lo que es tener la vida de una chica de diecisiete años normal. Con su madre en un hogar de transición tras salir de la cárcel y un hermano mayor que solo dedica su tiempo y su dinero a un estudio de grabación, tiene que valerse por sí misma; también intenta ayudar a Trevor, un crío de nueve años a cuya madre le da por desaparecer varios días seguidos cuando le viene en gana. Cuando el arrendador de su bloque de pisos...
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Publisher
Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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 stardom, Kiara hunts for work to pay their rent--which has more than doubled--and to keep the nine-year-old boy next door, abandoned by his mother, safe and fed. One night, what begins as a drunken misunderstanding...