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The Deep -- Rivers Solomon, Paperback
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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 Award-nominated song "The Deep" from Daveed Diggs's rap group Clipping. 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. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save one--the 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 responsibilities--and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own past--and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they'll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity--and own who they really are. 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.
Author: Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson
Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press
Published: 08/04/2020
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781534439870
Author: Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson
Publisher: Gallery / Saga Press
Published: 08/04/2020
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781534439870
About the Author
Rivers Solomon is the author of An Unkindness of Ghosts, and was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award finalist for Best New Writer. They graduated from Stanford University with a degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity and hold an MFA in fiction writing from the Michener Center for Writers. Though originally from the United States, they currently live in Cambridge, England, with their family. Find them on Twitter @CyborgYndroid.
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