![]() The Deep is “a tour de force reorientation of the storytelling gaze…a superb, multilayered work,” ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a vividly original and uniquely affecting story inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping. ![]() 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 about her own past-and about the future of her people. Solomons beautiful novella weaves together a moving and evocative narrative that imagines a future created from the scars of the past. 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. Their song was itself based on the afrofuturist mythology that Drexciya, an electronic duo from Detroit, created for their compilations. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. The Deep is a novella written by Rivers Solomon that is based on the Hugo-nominated song of the same name by the experimental hip hop group clipping. 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. ![]()
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