A review by janienejulia
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson

5.0

Although Open Water is quite a short read (it’s under 200 pages) Caleb Azumah Nelson accomplishes so much with it. It already feels like the kind of book to which I can and will return. It’s largely tender and soft, though hard and unforgiving at other times, but it is a deeply beautiful read in its entirety. Much in the way that the characters’ love is a transformative experience in and of itself, the same can be said for the act of reading this book. I think we all want to really feel and experience love, but for those of us whose existences are ignored some days, then challenged and attacked the next, this desire is perhaps even more potent, and Nelson has managed to capture what that really means. He has captured an essence, or perhaps several of them.

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