![]() The experience is as imaginative as it is engaging.įor people who think this point of view can be alienating, it can be. This is because the novel is written in the second person - the reader is not a distant observer but a character playing along. They dip and down we go with them they turn round and round, and the dizziness hits us too. But the reader feels like a part of the dance too, as if they are being escorted to the floor - a hand cupped over their shoulder blade, and the other in a firm clasp. In under 200 pages, Nelson places us in London and in the middle of a slow-dance romance between two Black British artists - a photographer and a dancer. Caleb Azumah Nelson certainly delivers these goods in Open Water, but he encases his core story in a more significant tale of violence and crippling racial trauma. In the beginning, there is some hesitation, but when love takes two tender hearts hostage, it is almost impossible to run from it. YOU’VE HEARD THIS story before - two friends fall in love with each other. ![]()
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