Yetu holds the memories for her people. Her people are the water dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slavers.
As the historian Yetu remembers for everybody because their past is too traumatic to be remembered but someone must.
The memories Yetu must hold on to are slowly killing her, so she flees to the world her people left behind. Yetu will learn more than she ever imagined about her own past and about the future of her people.
The Deep is about mermaids but not the Disney-fied mermaids we grew up knowing and loving.
The Deep is strange but in the most wonderful way. Its beautiful and lyrical. Its fantastically original and almost dreamlike.
The Deep is a short book and I could have read it in one sitting but I chose to read this slowly so I could take in and live in this beautiful world for as long as possible.
As the historian Yetu remembers for everybody because their past is too traumatic to be remembered but someone must.
The memories Yetu must hold on to are slowly killing her, so she flees to the world her people left behind. Yetu will learn more than she ever imagined about her own past and about the future of her people.
The Deep is about mermaids but not the Disney-fied mermaids we grew up knowing and loving.
The Deep is strange but in the most wonderful way. Its beautiful and lyrical. Its fantastically original and almost dreamlike.
The Deep is a short book and I could have read it in one sitting but I chose to read this slowly so I could take in and live in this beautiful world for as long as possible.