VERANDA Sip & Read Book Club April 2021 Pick is 'Open Water'
$14.49 Open Water, Caleb Azumah Nelson's virtuosic debut novel, is the story of two Black artists living in southeast London. Over the course of a year (2017–2018), the two fall into and out of a hesitant, beautiful love. They meet in a crowded bar one night, introduced via a mutual friend, and they're drawn to one another, an intangible magnetism, undeniable (though they do try at first). She lives in Dublin, he in London. She dated his friend for a time, and their undeniable attraction threatens that friendship. "You're scared of this moment," the narrator says, "which feels like w...