This bold, brutal tale of one girl's struggle to survive and support her loved ones shines an exposing light on systemic corruption, but is also a fierce, defiant ode to the city of Oakland and the striving souls within..
Told in considered, emotional state that drips with poetic symbolism, a sad story that follows Kiara, who forced to turn to the streets when her family implodes.
The readers glimpse her longings, dreams and creativity alongside the trauma and terror she faces day to day, and through the pages she becomes a soul – a girl just deserving of far more than her lot in life, with a capacity for selflessness that continually astounds.
Through Kiara, Leila Mottley gives a voice to victims of abuse who are so often silenced, and boldly advocates further change to systems that foster corruption, pay no mind to poverty and cover up crimes.
I feel like this kind of wok, only now coming out, being the BLM movement a few years ago.
I'd recommend looking up *trigger warnings* for this book, purely as it explores a range of sensitive themes such as
poverty, prostitution, death, suicide, abuse, drug dealing, sexual trauma and police corruption.
However, I will reiterate that the author does a gritty way of showing the human capacity for hope in hopeless situations, and the way people come together to bravely build lives despite the uncertainty of the world.
Told in considered, emotional state that drips with poetic symbolism, a sad story that follows Kiara, who forced to turn to the streets when her family implodes.
The readers glimpse her longings, dreams and creativity alongside the trauma and terror she faces day to day, and through the pages she becomes a soul – a girl just deserving of far more than her lot in life, with a capacity for selflessness that continually astounds.
Through Kiara, Leila Mottley gives a voice to victims of abuse who are so often silenced, and boldly advocates further change to systems that foster corruption, pay no mind to poverty and cover up crimes.
I feel like this kind of wok, only now coming out, being the BLM movement a few years ago.
I'd recommend looking up *trigger warnings* for this book, purely as it explores a range of sensitive themes such as
poverty, prostitution, death, suicide, abuse, drug dealing, sexual trauma and police corruption.
However, I will reiterate that the author does a gritty way of showing the human capacity for hope in hopeless situations, and the way people come together to bravely build lives despite the uncertainty of the world.