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I have been in a short reading slump - too many bad books in a row I think - so haven't started this yet, but I hoped to soon.
I read this book while travelling through and around London last weekend. I too found it tricky to get into the way it was written. I read the book as if it was in Two stories i) the love story ii) being the victim of racism. It did make me sit up and take notice.
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A little about the Book
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. 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 -- trying to make their mark in a city 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.
At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water 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, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential British debut of recent years.
Pages: 145(depending on the edition)
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HAPPY READING!📚📚