num_pages: 145
description: 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.
language: English
title: Open Water
publisher: VIKIN