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The Deep von Rivers Solomon
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The Deep (2020. Auflage)

von Rivers Solomon (Autor), Daveed Diggs (Autor), William Hutson (Autor), Jonathan Snipes (Autor)

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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 [...] 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." --… (mehr)
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Titel:The Deep
Autoren:Rivers Solomon (Autor)
Weitere Autoren:Daveed Diggs (Autor), William Hutson (Autor), Jonathan Snipes (Autor)
Info:Gallery / Saga Press (2020), 192 pages
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It was a really original premise, but for me the book was just ok. I realize that this requires a healthy suspension of disbelief, and usually that doesn't pose a problem for me with sci-fi and fantasy, but my brain just required too much explanation that wasn't there. (It doesn't help that my degree is marine biology, so I just kept trying to nitpick things, which just pulled me out of the story too much.) There are tons of people who will probably enjoy this a lot, but it just wasn't there for me. ( )
  ardaiel | Mar 4, 2024 |
Holy sh*t! THE PREMISE!
I can't wait to get this....
  jazzbird61 | Feb 29, 2024 |
audio fiction, mermaids/merpeople descended from African enslaved women who had been tossed overboard (4 hours)

a Memory Keeper flees from her people when it becomes too much for her to continue remembering their history alone, the generational trauma so great that she almost dies from the pain-filled despair. The story is based on a song with multiple creators, itself based on the musical lore surrounding the Drexia..

March 2024 bingo challenge: Audie Award (Winner – Science Fiction – 2021) ( )
  reader1009 | Feb 27, 2024 |
This book is kind of wild, I've never read anything like it before. I got very lost a few times but I followed along for the most part. Also read the Afterword, it changes the perspective of the book and I just think it's really cool ( )
  NovaQueen27 | Jan 11, 2024 |
Of the nearly 12.5 million enslaved Africans who were transported to the Americas in the 16th - 19th centuries, it has been estimated that 1.8 million died en route, their bodies, some still alive, tossed overboard into the ocean....

And the pregnant women gave birth underwater to a new civilization and species: a mermaid-like, undersea race called the wajinru, and they live in The Deep.
Inspired by the Clipping. song "The Deep", Rivers Solomon and crew have created a smart novella about memory, survival, and the burden of generational trauma that's compelling in its world-building.

"...History was not an imagining, not just stored electrical pulses. They were people who'd lived. Who'd breathed and wept and loved and lost."

The Deep tells the story of Yetu, the historian for the Wajinru, who must remember for her entire race but the history is too heavy a burden too bear. She rebels against the duty that's been thrust upon her, even as that rebellion parallels a much more perilous threat — the surface dwellers, called two-legs, who have begun to encroach on the idyllic existence of the wajinru in their rapacious search for oil. With their invasion comes the realization of a brutal truth: Yetu and her people are in fact descendants of the two-legs, the offspring of the thousands of captives thrown overboard to drown during the height of the transatlantic slave trade.

I found the Afterward describing the shared world/inspiration of the book to be quite rewarding. Don't skip on it! ( )
  ryantlaferney87 | Dec 8, 2023 |
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Rivers SolomonHauptautoralle Ausgabenberechnet
clipping.Hauptautoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Diggs, DaveedHauptautoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Hutson, WilliamHauptautoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Snipes, JonathanHauptautoralle Ausgabenbestätigt
Chaghatzbanian, SoniaUmschlaggestalterCo-Autoreinige Ausgabenbestätigt
Epstein, MicahUmschlagillustrationCo-Autoreinige Ausgabenbestätigt
Guévremont, FrancisÜbersetzerCo-Autoreinige Ausgabenbestätigt
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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 [...] 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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