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Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash
3.0
Dark, Salt, Clear is Lamorna Ash’s debut, and the account of the time she spent in Newlyn, Cornwall, immersing herself in the town’s fishing culture in order to write the thesis for her anthropology masters.
Incredibly assured for a debut, the book does what a lot of my favourite non-fiction does in being mainly not what it’s meant to be about. The writing on the difficulties, successes and reaching effects of the fishing industry are very well done, but the book is also an exploration of the meaning of home, of belonging, and with more than a nod to the importance of art.
Incredibly assured for a debut, the book does what a lot of my favourite non-fiction does in being mainly not what it’s meant to be about. The writing on the difficulties, successes and reaching effects of the fishing industry are very well done, but the book is also an exploration of the meaning of home, of belonging, and with more than a nod to the importance of art.