3.5
Saltwater
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It begins with our bodies . . . Safe together in the violet dark and yet already there are spaces beginning to open between us.
From that first immaculate, fluid connection, through the ups and downs of a working-class childhood in northern England, the one constant in Lucy's life has been her mother: comforting and mysterious, ferociously loving, tirelessly devoted, as much a part of Lucy as her own skin. Her mother's lessons in womanhood shape Lucy's appreciation for desire, her sense of duty as a caretaker, her hunger for a better, perhaps reckless life.
At university in glamorous London, Lucy's background sets her apart. And then she is finished, graduated, adrift. She escapes to a tiny house in Donegal left empty by her grandfather, a place where her mother once found happiness. There she will take a lover, live inside art and the past, and track back through her memories and her mother's stories to make sense of her place in the world.
In "a stunning new voice in British literary fiction" (
) that lays bare our raw, dark selves, Jessica Andrews's debut is a story of becoming—a woman, an artist—and of finding a way forward by looking back.
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“jessica andrew’s is able to just encapsulate such feeling into her writing, i always feel so immersed in her stories”
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“I <3 the connection between the North East and Ireland.”
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About Jessica Andrews
writes fiction and poetry. Her work has been published in
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and Papaya Press, among others. She teaches literature and creative writing, and is coeditor of
, an online arts and literary magazine that aims to give a platform to underrepresented writers.
is her first novel.
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