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The Deep by Rivers Solomon is about the water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard. It is inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group Clipping.
It was a very unique story. The words flowed easy and have a poetic feel to them. It was haunting and beautiful.

Their past, which is to traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone except for one. Only one member of the Wajinru holds the painful memories of their ancestors, they call them the Historians. Yetu is the historian currently bearing the weight of all these memories. With the painful memories becoming to much Yetu escapes to the surface, escaping the memories.
I really found this story fascinating. A few times when the characters would change I’d get a bit lost but otherwise I liked it. Very interesting read. I really liked the afterword as well.