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Also by Rivers Solomon:

Sorrowland, May 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
The Deep, December 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Deep, November 2019
Hardcover / e-Book

Also by Daveed Diggs:

The Deep, November 2019
Hardcover / e-Book

The Deep
Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs

Gallery / Saga Press
November 2019
On Sale: November 5, 2019
176 pages
ISBN: 1534439862
EAN: 9781534439863
Kindle: B07MKDLSLZ
Hardcover / e-Book
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Multicultural African-American | Fantasy

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.

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