The deep

Solomon, Rivers (author.). Diggs, Daveed, (author.). Hutson, William (Composer), (author.). Snipes, Jonathan, 1980- (author.).

Summary: "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." --

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ISBN: 9781534439863
ISBN: 1534439862
ISBN: 9781534439887
ISBN: 9781529331714
ISBN: 1529331714
Physical Description: print
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166 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First Saga Press hardcover edition.
Publisher: London ; New York : Saga Press, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping for the This American Life episode 'We Are In The Future'.

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Subject:

Mermaids Fiction
Slavery Fiction
Africans Fiction
Collective memory Fiction
Historians Fiction
Mermaids
Slavery
Mermaids and mermen Fiction
Historians Fiction
Memory Fiction
Identity (Psychology) Fiction
Slavery Fiction

Genre:

Fantasy fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Fiction.
Fantasy fiction.

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