Seventeen year old Kiara Johnson loves in a run down apartment block with her older brother, whose attention is solely on trying to make it in the music industry; her father is dead, and her mother is in a halfway house.
Having taken her nine year old neighbour under her wing, whose mother is an addict & disappears for days at a time, Kiara is left to fend for the two of them, and resorts to selling herself to survive.
She's soon picked up by two cops, who instead of helping her, use their statuses to exploit her.
Although Night Crawling is a work of fiction, the author has based it on a true life story, and it makes the story more harrowing to think that this is the what some young women have gone through; whilst some are no doubt suffering through exploitation now, and there are those who are at risk of being picked up by the perverse predators lurking in society.
The author also brings forth the point that black and brown women are still looked upon as second rate by society.
Having taken her nine year old neighbour under her wing, whose mother is an addict & disappears for days at a time, Kiara is left to fend for the two of them, and resorts to selling herself to survive.
She's soon picked up by two cops, who instead of helping her, use their statuses to exploit her.
Although Night Crawling is a work of fiction, the author has based it on a true life story, and it makes the story more harrowing to think that this is the what some young women have gone through; whilst some are no doubt suffering through exploitation now, and there are those who are at risk of being picked up by the perverse predators lurking in society.
The author also brings forth the point that black and brown women are still looked upon as second rate by society.