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005			20210504104340.0
008			210305r20212021nyu 000 1 eng
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043			_ae-uk-en
092			_aNELSON, _bCALEB
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aNelson, Caleb Azumah, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aOpen water / _cCaleb Azumah Nelson.
250			_aFirst Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bBlack Cat, _c2021.
300			_a166 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Black Cat an imprint of Grove Atlantic"--Title page verso.
500			_a"First published in 2021 in the United Kingdom by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso.
520			_a"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 beauty. This is one of the most essential debut novels of recent years, heralding the arrival of a stellar and prodigious young talent"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aBlacks _zEngland _zLondon _vFiction. _9207481
650		0	_aArtists, Black _vFiction.
655		7	_aRomance fiction. _2lcgft _9772
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