The Deep

The Deep

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater societyâ€”and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Awardâ€“nominated song â€œThe Deepâ€ from Daveed Diggsâ€™s rap group clipping

Yetu holds the memories for her peopleâ€”water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave ownersâ€”who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save oneâ€”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 responsibilitiesâ€”and discovers a world her people left behind long ago.

Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own pastâ€”and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, theyâ€™ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identityâ€”and own who they really are.

Inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping for the This American Life episode â€œWe Are In The Future,â€ The Deep is vividly original and uniquely affecting.
Country USA
Brand Gallery / Saga Press
Manufacturer S&S/Saga Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2019-11-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781534439863

Country	USA
Brand	Gallery / Saga Press
Manufacturer	S&S/Saga Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2019-11-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781534439863

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