Leila Mottley on NIGHTCRAWLING
\u201cI really wanted to depict the ways that young Black girls are made adults by a culture that sees us as that. And I wanted to show the way that that pressure piles on and what it does to teenage Black girls, who are really often forgotten in our culture.\u201d
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Nightcrawling is a powerful story of family, grief and justice with an unforgettable teenage narrator (and equally unforgettable author), and it\u2019s out now. Leila Mottley joins us on the show to talk about writing her first novel at 14, sibling dynamics, the importance of published Black authors, the portrayal of young Black girls in the media, gentrification in Oakland, and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer.\xa0
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Featured Books:
Nightcrawling\xa0by Leila Mottley
The God of Small Things\xa0by Arundhati Roy
There There\xa0by Tommy Orange
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Poured Over is produced and hosted by Miwa Messer and mixed by Harry Liang. Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).
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A full transcript of this show is available\xa0here.