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Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

por Lamorna Ash

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"From an adventurous and discerning new voice reminiscent of Robert Macfarlane, a captivating portrait of a community eking out its living in a coastal landscape as stark and storied as it is beautiful. Before arriving in Newlyn, a Cornish fishing village at the end of the railway line, Lamorna Ash was told that no fisherman would want a girl joining an expedition. Weeks later, the only female on board a trawler called the Filadelfia, she is heading out to sea with the dome of the sky above and the black waves below. Newlyn is a town of dramatic cliffs, crashing tides, and hardcore career fishermen-complex and difficult heroes who slowly open up to Ash about their lives and frustrations, first in the condensed space of the boat, and then in the rough pubs ashore. Determined to know the community on its own terms, Ash lodges in a spare room by the harbor and lets the village wash over her in all of its clamoring unruliness, thumping machinery, and tangled nets-its history, dialect, and centuries-old industry. Moving between Ash's surprising, transformational journey aboard the Filadelfia and her astute observations of Newlyn's landscape and people, Dark, Salt, Clear is an assured work of indelible characters and a multilayered travelogue through a landscape both lovely and merciless. Ash's adventurous glint, her delicate observations, and her willingness to get under the skin of a place call to mind the work of Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, and Robert Macfarlane. This is an evocative journey and a fiercely auspicious debut"--… (más)
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I gave it a go but I couldn't get into it. Lots of parts where she explains an idea or feeling by way of what other writers have said, which felt a bit like reading a term paper. Lots of trying to philosophize, which I ended up skimming until finally I was just skimming the whole thing, and what's the point of sticking with a book if you're just skimming? ( )
  blueskygreentrees | Sep 30, 2023 |
How can a little fishing town at the southern tip of England support 306 pages of prose? Well, the prose is elegant, humorous, poetic and often riveting. Lamorna Ash is a young, well-educated London journalist and playwright with family connections to coastal Cornwall. She immerses herself in the fishing industry in the town of Newlyn. As she learns about ocean fishing from small boats, spending days at sea in oilskins and wellies, gutting and sorting fish, gazing wondrously at ocean sunrises and sunsets, she teaches us.

The small crews of men on the several boats she shares become her friends. Almost all come from generations of fishing families. She lovingly portrays their differing personalities and idiosyncrasies, aided often by the pints she shares with them at local pubs after each venture at sea.

Her descriptions of the sea and sky - ever changing - are beautiful. Here is one at dusk:

"All grows quiet and slow. Gently colours sweep across the old empty world, readying it for black night and the renewal it will bring. The sun sinks down and is gone without a final encore. It is a firework display in reverse, every colour and flash and swirl flying back inwards to a single point before disappearing below the horizon. I stay watching the sky until there is one last streak of colour left across it: a pink haze, just as the day began."

The transitions from sea to land are described many times. This is a passage of the crew returning home when cell phone coverage materializes about five miles from shore:

"A myopia descends upon the whole crew simultaneously. Our smiles turn inwards as our home lives open outwards. At once, Kyle and I, who have yarned and prattled together all week, lapse into silence, transfixed by our screens. Our fingers caress the smooth, clean surfaces of our virtual lives and in each of our eyes shines a reflected blue oblong. And, like that, the community of the past eight days fractures."

A captivating book. ( )
1 vota bbrad | Mar 12, 2022 |
Lamorna Ash is named for a town in Cornwall, and her childhood is replete with memories of visiting the area during the summer holidays. As an adult, she decides to return to Cornwall to see how it has changed. From her home base in Newlyn, she spends weeks at a time on various fishing vessels, learning first-hand the challenges and joys of working in a field with such long tradition, and seeing how the 20th and 21st centuries have left and continue to leave their mark on these communities.

I really enjoyed this memoir. The descriptions of life on board were well realized, with drama and humour and a certain amount of grossness (fish guts are pretty icky). Ash learns a lot about herself as she undertakes this journey, and about what it takes to survive at the end of the Cornish peninsula.

I would recommend this if you’re attracted to Cornwall and want to read about a way of life that is hanging on in spite of the tourists and the gentrification, if you have family from that part of the world, or if you like to read about life on the sea. I would perhaps not recommend it if you’re vegan, because there is a fair bit of talk about cutting up fish.

This book contains a reading list at the end, in which Ash lists all of the books she quotes from or mentions having read in each chapter. This has naturally added more books to my TBR! ( )
  rabbitprincess | Feb 7, 2021 |
This didn't work for me. I had a lot of problems with both the author and her writing.

> ‘Turn the boat around!’ ‘What?’ yells Don, swivelling his torso around on his skipper’s chair and elongating the a so that the word goes on for many seconds. ‘There are no lollies! You forgot to get the lollies, you bastard!’ Andrew cries with a cackle.

> Around half the fish I saw caught on the Crystal Sea had to be thrown back into the sea, although they were dead, because of quota restrictions ( )
  breic | Feb 4, 2021 |
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"From an adventurous and discerning new voice reminiscent of Robert Macfarlane, a captivating portrait of a community eking out its living in a coastal landscape as stark and storied as it is beautiful. Before arriving in Newlyn, a Cornish fishing village at the end of the railway line, Lamorna Ash was told that no fisherman would want a girl joining an expedition. Weeks later, the only female on board a trawler called the Filadelfia, she is heading out to sea with the dome of the sky above and the black waves below. Newlyn is a town of dramatic cliffs, crashing tides, and hardcore career fishermen-complex and difficult heroes who slowly open up to Ash about their lives and frustrations, first in the condensed space of the boat, and then in the rough pubs ashore. Determined to know the community on its own terms, Ash lodges in a spare room by the harbor and lets the village wash over her in all of its clamoring unruliness, thumping machinery, and tangled nets-its history, dialect, and centuries-old industry. Moving between Ash's surprising, transformational journey aboard the Filadelfia and her astute observations of Newlyn's landscape and people, Dark, Salt, Clear is an assured work of indelible characters and a multilayered travelogue through a landscape both lovely and merciless. Ash's adventurous glint, her delicate observations, and her willingness to get under the skin of a place call to mind the work of Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, and Robert Macfarlane. This is an evocative journey and a fiercely auspicious debut"--

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