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Open water

Nelson, Caleb Azumah (author.).

Summary: "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." --

Record details

  • ISBN: 0802157947
  • ISBN: 9780802157942
  • Physical Description: 166 pages ; 21 cm
    print
  • Edition: First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Black Cat, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Black Cat an imprint of Grove Atlantic." --Title page verso.
"First published in 2021 in the United Kingdom by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso.

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Subject:
FICTION / Literary
Artists, Black -- Fiction
Blacks -- England -- London -- Fiction
Black artists -- Fiction
Blacks -- Fiction
England -- London
Black people
Artists, Black
FICTION / Urban & Street Lit
Genre:
Fiction.
Romance fiction.

Available copies

  • 15 of 18 copies available at Westchester Library System.

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  • 1 current hold with 18 total copies.
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Chappaqua Library FICTION NELSON (Text) 31005500431376 Fiction Checked out 02/17/2026
Dobbs Ferry Public Library NELSON (Text) 31007151403902 Fiction Available -
Eastchester Public Library PBK FICTION NELSON (Text) 31008152610784 Paperback Available -
Greenburgh Public Library NELSON (Text) 31009154803591 Fiction Available -
Harrison Public Library NELSON, C. (Text) 31010300249549 Fiction Available -
Larchmont Public Library NELSON (Text) 31014152781328 Fiction Available -
Mamaroneck Public Library District FICTION (Text) 31015152623337 Fiction Available -
Mount Vernon Public Library FICTION NELSON (Text) 31018155608818 Fiction Available -
New Rochelle Public Library NELSON (Text) 31019156609953 Fiction Checked out 03/31/2026
Scarsdale Public Library FICTION (Text) 31029154449856 Fiction Available -
The Field Library NELSON, C. (Text) 31022152269038 Fiction Available -
Tuckahoe Public Library NELSON (Text) 31034151311778 Fiction Available -
Warner Library FICTION NELSON (Text) 31033152094466 Fiction Available -
White Plains Public Library FICTION (Text) 31544101187003 Fiction Available -
White Plains Public Library FICTION BOOKTOK (Text) 31544101385680 Paperback Available -
White Plains Public Library FICTION BOOKTOK (Text) 31544101385722 Paperback Checked out 03/26/2026
Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library FICTION (Text) 31035604042548 Fiction Available -
Yonkers Riverfront Library FICTION PBK (Text) 31035600045107 Fiction Available -
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