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. It is a myth about the Wajinruwater-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women that had been thrown overboard by. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity - and own who they really are. This novella tells a story inspired by clipping.’s song The Deep. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past - and about the future of her people. 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. Rivers Solomon’s novel The Deep actor, singer and rapper Daveed Diggs and his hip-hop group Clipping’s song The Deep. 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' rap group, Clipping. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. Her deep dive is accompanied by the call of whales. Daveed Daniele Diggs (born January 24, 1982) is an American actor, rapper, and singer-songwriter. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one - the historian.

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.

I felt so keenly for Yetu, for the Wajinru and their histories, it gave me chills. 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' rap group, Clipping. The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes 20.69 USD Get for 14.99 with membership Add to cart Narrator Daveed Diggs Length 4 hours 1 minute Language English Bookseller recommendation This book is haunting in the best possible way.

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