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    "description": "<p><em>It begins with our bodies . . . Safe together in the violet dark and yet already there are spaces beginning to open between us.</em><br /><br /><span>From that first immaculate, fluid connection, through the ups and downs of a working-class childhood in northern England, the one constant in Lucy&rsquo;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&rsquo;s appreciation for desire, her sense of duty as a caretaker, her hunger for a better, perhaps reckless life.</span><br /><br /><span>At university in glamorous London, Lucy&rsquo;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&rsquo;s stories to make sense of her place in the world.</span><br /><br /><span>In &ldquo;a stunning new voice in British literary fiction&rdquo; (</span><em>The Independent</em><span>) that lays bare our raw, dark selves, Jessica Andrews&rsquo;s debut honors the richness and imperfection of the bond between a daughter and her mother. Intricately woven in lyrical vignettes,&nbsp;</span><em>Saltwater</em><span>&nbsp;is a novel of becoming-- a woman, an artist-- and of finding a way forward by looking back.</span></p>",
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