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 with a stranger turns into the job Kiara never imagined wanting but now desperately needs: nightcrawling. Her world breaks open even further when her name surfaces in an investigation that exposes her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland Police Department.
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I really enjoyed this book! I'm a bit behind on updating my reviews, so I can't think of much to say, but I felt really connected to the characters and it was good idk what else to say oops
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* by the time the funeral came around, i was too exhausted to give a shit about wearing black and part of me wished i had stayed away like marcus. death is easier to live through unseen. (6%)
* most days I say I don’t believe in nothing, except something about the way the night colors everything makes me want to. not in an afterlife, heaven, or any of that shit. that just makes us feel better about dying and I don’t really got nothing to fear about dying in the first place. I just think that the stars might line up and trail into an otherworld. doesn’t have to be a better world because that probably doesn’t exist, but i think it is something else. somewhere where the people walk a little different. maybe they speak in hums. maybe they all got the same face or maybe they don’t have faces at all. when i have enough time to stare at the sky, i imagine i might be lucky enough to catch glimpses of the something. always get pulled back to this planet, though. (55%)
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