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The deep / by Rivers Solomon ; with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes.

Nā: Kaituhi: Momo rauemi: TextTextKaiwhakaputa: New York : Saga Press, 2020Copyright date: ��2020Edition: First Saga Press trade paperback editionWhakaahuatanga: 166 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1534439870
  • 9781534439870
Ngā marau: Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3619.O43724 D44 2020
Summary: "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."--
Ngā tūtohu mai i tēnei whare pukapuka: Kāore he tūtohu i tēnei whare pukapuka mō tēnei taitara. Takiuru ki te tāpiri tūtohu.
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"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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