The Deep has an exceptional, unusual premise: the descendants of African slave women who were thrown overboard now live in a community deep in the ocean, transformed into sea-dwellers. They have a historian, Yetu, who harbors all the unbearable memories of their ancestors to unburden the others from remembering. Yetu is unable to bear the pain of remembering, and flees to the surface.
This book had great potential, but the writing was flowery, full of angst and jejune, emotional descriptions. The plot is vague and the backstory is surreal. I appreciated the anguish of having to remember the history of the ancestors, but the hazy plot, desperately trying to be profound, seemed adolescent to me.
This book had great potential, but the writing was flowery, full of angst and jejune, emotional descriptions. The plot is vague and the backstory is surreal. I appreciated the anguish of having to remember the history of the ancestors, but the hazy plot, desperately trying to be profound, seemed adolescent to me.