Most Unique Science Fiction Book I've Ever Read

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Yetu and her people are descendants of pregnant African slave women who were thrown from slaving ships. The ocean saves the babies still living in their mothers’ womb when their mothers can’t survive; babies who know how to breathe in water and grow limbs like fish...
This is surely the most unique work of science fiction I’ve read.
It’s a short book that strays from the normal path and dives to the ocean floor and into the lives of mermaids and whales, their close companions.
The most important trait The Deep possesses is its ability to take something as horrible and ugly as slavery and use science fiction to create a riveting fantasy from a huge loss; an ocean teeming with life from its history. It briefly resurrects the innocent souls lost by acts of human cruelty. For that, this is a great piece of literature and I feel lucky to have scooped this one up.