The Deep /
Solomon, Rivers, 1989- , author.
The Deep / by Rivers Solomon ; with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes. - First Saga Press trade paperback edition. - New York : Saga Press, 2020, c2019. - 166 pages ; 21 cm
Includes reading group guide. "Inspired by the hit song by clipping. (comprised of Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes)."--Back cover.
Yetu holds the memories for her people--water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners--who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save one--the 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 responsibilities--and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own past and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they'll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity, and own who they really are.
Hugo Award nominee, 2020 Locus Award nominee, 2020 Nebula Award nominee, 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror, 2020
9781534439870
Mermaids--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Collective memory--Fiction.
Historians--Fiction.
Africans.--Fiction.
FICTION / African American & Black / General.
FICTION / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy.
FICTION / Dystopian.
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The Deep / by Rivers Solomon ; with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes. - First Saga Press trade paperback edition. - New York : Saga Press, 2020, c2019. - 166 pages ; 21 cm
Includes reading group guide. "Inspired by the hit song by clipping. (comprised of Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes)."--Back cover.
Yetu holds the memories for her people--water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners--who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save one--the 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 responsibilities--and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own past and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they'll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity, and own who they really are.
Hugo Award nominee, 2020 Locus Award nominee, 2020 Nebula Award nominee, 2019 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror, 2020
9781534439870
Mermaids--Fiction.
Slavery--Fiction.
Collective memory--Fiction.
Historians--Fiction.
Africans.--Fiction.
FICTION / African American & Black / General.
FICTION / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy.
FICTION / Dystopian.
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