Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Brand: Black Cat
Product Description
Open Water is tender poetry a love song to Black art and thought an exploration of intimacy and vulnerability between two young artists learning to be soft with each other in a world that hardens against Black people.Yaa Gyasi author of HOMEGOING In a crowded London pub two young people meet. Both are Black British both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong both are now artistshe a photographer she a dancerand both are trying to make their mark in a world that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively tenderly they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence and over the course of a year they find their relationship tested by forces beyond their control. Narrated with deep intimacy Open Water is at once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity that asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength to find safety in love only to lose it. With gorgeous soulful intensity and blistering emotional intelligence Caleb Azumah Nelson gives a profoundly sensitive portrait of romantic love in all its feverish waves and comforting beauty. This is one of the most essential debut novels of recent years heralding the arrival of a stellar and prodigious young talent. show more
Condition : New
Author : Caleb Azumah Nelson
Weight : 324.12
Publisher : Black Cat
Language : English
EAN : 9780802157942
ISBN10 : 0802157947
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20210722
Place of Publication : New York United States
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 139.7 X 208.28 X 17.78mm