02049cam a2200253 4500 497771481 TxAuBib 20210506120000.0 210305s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021009814 9780802157942 PAP 16.00 0802157947 PAP 16.00 TxAuBib Nelson, Caleb Azumah. Open water [BOOK] / Caleb Azumah Nelson. New York : Black Cat, 2021. 166 pages ; 21 cm. "First published in 2021 in the United Kingdom by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK.". "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 artists-he a photographer, she a dancer-and 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 beyondtheir 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 whenyou 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 andcomforting beauty. This is one of the most essential debut novels of recent years, heralding the arrival of a stellar and prodigious young talent"-- Provided by publisher. 20210506. Blacks England London Fiction. Artists, Black Fiction. Romance fiction.