Open water
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9780802157942
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| Grouped Work ID | 844a0a5a-99ae-ba5d-86e2-1a4dec5da89c |
|---|---|
| Grouping Title | open water |
| Grouping Author | caleb azumah nelson |
| Grouping Category | book |
| Grouping Language | English (eng) |
| Last Grouping Update | 2025-09-20 05:08:44AM |
| Last Indexed | 2025-09-20 05:13:20AM |
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Nelson, Caleb Azumah
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Nelson, Caleb Azumah
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"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 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 beautyt"--
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9780802157942
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2021
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Black Cat
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Artists, Black -- Fiction
Black people -- England -- London -- Fiction
Fiction
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Black people -- England -- London -- Fiction
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Love -- Fiction
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Open water
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Open water / Caleb Azumah Nelson
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Open water
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Black people
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