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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.Product Identifiers
PublisherHodder & Stoughton
ISBN-139781529331738
eBay Product ID (ePID)19046690673
Product Key Features
Number of Pages176 Pages
Publication NameThe Deep
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2020
TypeTextbook
AuthorWilliam Hutson, Jonathan Snipes, Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs
Subject AreaFantasy
Dimensions
Item Height196 mm
Item Weight128 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorRivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes