The deep /
Solomon, Rivers,
The deep / by Rivers Solomon ; with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes. - First Saga Press trade paperback edition. - 166 pages ; 21 cm
"Inspired by the hit song by clipping. (comprised of Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes)."--Back cover.
"Yetu holds the memories for her peopl�ewater-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owner�swho live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save on�ethe 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 responsibilitie�sand discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own pas�tand about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, the�yll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identit�yand own who they really are."--
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Mermaids--Fiction
Slavery--Fiction.
Africans--Fiction.
Collective memory--Fiction.
Historians--Fiction.
Afrofuturist fiction.
Science fiction.
PS3619.O43724 / D44 2020
The deep / by Rivers Solomon ; with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes. - First Saga Press trade paperback edition. - 166 pages ; 21 cm
"Inspired by the hit song by clipping. (comprised of Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes)."--Back cover.
"Yetu holds the memories for her peopl�ewater-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owner�swho live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save on�ethe 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 responsibilitie�sand discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own pas�tand about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, the�yll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identit�yand own who they really are."--
1534439870 9781534439870
Mermaids--Fiction
Slavery--Fiction.
Africans--Fiction.
Collective memory--Fiction.
Historians--Fiction.
Afrofuturist fiction.
Science fiction.
PS3619.O43724 / D44 2020