Octavia E. Butler meets MarvelтАЩs Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo AwardтАУnominated song тАЬThe DeepтАЭ from Daveed DiggsтАЩs rap group Clipping.
Yetu holds the memories for her peopleтАФwater-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave ownersтАФwho live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save oneтАФthe 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 responsibilitiesтАФand discovers a world her people left behind long ago.
Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own pastтАФand about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, theyтАЩll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identityтАФand own who they really are.
The Deep is тАЬa tour de force reorientation of the storytelling gazeтАжa superb, multilayered work,тАЭ (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a vividly original and uniquely affecting story inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping.
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