ONE OF NPRâS BEST BOOKS OF 2019
The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater societyâand must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Awardânominated song âThe Deepâ from Daveed Diggsâs rap group clipping
Yetu holds the memories for her peopleâwater-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave ownersâwho live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save oneâthe historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.
Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilitiesâand discovers a world her people left behind long ago.
Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own pastâand about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, theyâll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identityâand own who they really are.
Inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping for the This American Life episode âWe Are In The Future,â The Deep is vividly original and uniquely affecting.
Categories:
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science Fiction
- Post-Apocalyptic
- Science Fiction
Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press
Author : Solomon, Rivers,Diggs, Daveed,Hutson, William,Snipes, Jonathan
Language : English
Published :2019-11-05
Number Of Pages : 176
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 1534439862
ISBN-13 : 9781534439863
Item weight : 0.6 lb
Dimensions : 0.8 in x 5.7 in x 8.5 in
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