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Loading... The Deep (edition 2020)by Rivers Solomon (Author), Daveed Diggs (Author), William Hutson (Author), Jonathan Snipes (Author)
Work InformationThe Deep by Rivers Solomon
   No current Talk conversations about this book.  jenjenreviews | Nov 20, 2024 |    ) Anamie | Nov 16, 2024 | An interesting story about an underwater people descended from enslaved women who drowned by the TransAtlantic slave route. Yetu, the main character of the story, is historian to her people and she is not only supposed to keep the past and tasked to make her people remember, but also holds the trauma of their history with her so that they don't have to. A fantastic read that explores trauma, past, and community, which was frankly unlike anything I've ever read. (  ) raulbimenyimana | Oct 13, 2024 | Yetu's pain with her life and her people is telegraphed clearly, and it drew me in to her hopelessness, anger, and eventual grasp at escape - and yet the story also twines the reader into how Yetu is so badly torn even As I read more and got even further wound up in the story - both Yetu's and of all the wajinru, I truly desperately wanted a happy ending, but also dreaded where the ending would actually take me. I was, in the end, delighted with  ) Kalira | May 12, 2024 | This story is a lot. A lot of jumping around, a lot of telling not showing, a lot of things happening that aren't explained. I'm starting to space out while listening so I'm letting it go. (  ) Corinne2020 | Apr 16, 2024 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML:Winner of the 2021 Audie Award ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 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'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 to 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. Inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping for the This American Life episode "We Are In The Future," The Deep is vividly original and uniquely affecting. No library descriptions found. |
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I think I would have enjoyed this much more if I didn’t listen to the audiobook (