![]() ![]() If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity - and own who they really are. ![]() Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past - and about the future of her people. 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 remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. ![]() This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. ![]() Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one - the historian. 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. The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society - and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award-nominated song "The Deep" from Daveed Diggs' rap group, Clipping. ![]()
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