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19-Year Old Oakland Author, Leila Mottley, Featured In Oprah's Book Club

Shout out to Oakland's own Leila Mottley!

Leila Mottley's novel, "Nightcrawling" has officially been added to Oprah's Book Club! Oprah describes "Nightcrawling" as:

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 soul-searching portrait of survival and hope."


Mottley was named the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate and has also reportedly been published in the New York Times and Oprah Daily.

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