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Leila Mottley
Leila Mottley is the 2018 Oakland Youth Poet Laureate. Her work has been featured in THE NEW YORK TIMES and OPRAH DAILY. She was born and raised in Oakland, where she continues to live. NIGHTCRAWLING is her first novel.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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Shut Up, This Is Serious (2024)
Carolina Ixta
"Shut Up, This Is Serious accomplishes an impressive feat in its brilliant display of a young girl's complicated life with language that startles and stuns, daring to trust you with the lush interiority of a teenage girl's contention with sex, race, and family. This novel is an unabashedly funny and honest depiction of Oakland, girlhood, and friendship that doesn't hesitate in its piercing accuracy while upholding the beauty and awkwardness of the world these characters inhabit."
Dances (2023)
Nicole Cuffy
"Dances is a striking ode to the world of ballet, full of Cuffy's lush descriptions of its glittery highs and its excruciating lows. Cece's struggles with self-acceptance are achingly resonant, and this beautifully intertwined family saga and artist's journey keeps readers en pointes, propelled through the steps of a ballerina's whirlwind year."
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