{"product_id":"saltwater-a-novel","title":"Saltwater","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Best Book of 2020: Open Letters Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Andrews’s writing is transportingly voluptuous, conjuring tastes and smells and sounds like her literary godmother, Edna O’Brien . . . What makes her novel sing is its universal themes: how a young woman tries to make sense of her world, and how she grows up.”\u003cbr\u003e―Penelope Green, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis “luminous” (The Observer) feminist coming-of-age novel captures in sensuous, blistering prose the richness and imperfection of the bond between a daughter and her mother\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt begins with our bodies . . . Safe together in the violet dark and yet already there are spaces beginning to open between us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn “a stunning new voice in British literary fiction” (The Independent) that lays bare our raw, dark selves, Jessica Andrews’s debut honors the richness and imperfection of the bond between a daughter and her mother. Intricately woven in lyrical vignettes, Saltwater is a novel of becoming―a woman, an artist―and of finding a way forward by looking back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575564075071,"sku":"9780374253806","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/4566\/6623\/files\/9780374253806.jpg?v=1784819279","url":"https:\/\/thebookshopwp.com\/products\/saltwater-a-novel","provider":"The Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}