The Deep
Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes
- 176 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Deep
Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes
About This Book
Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel's Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Awardânominated song "The Deep" from Daveed Diggs's rap group Clipping. Yetu holds the memories for her peopleâwater-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave ownersâwho live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save oneâthe 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 responsibilitiesâand discovers a world her people left behind long ago.Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own pastâand about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they'll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identityâand own who they really are. The Deep is "a tour de force reorientation of the storytelling gazeâŠa 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.