I can't describe it, but I encourage you to open yourself to experience it. In the afterward, clipping describes the development (and retelling) of the tale much like a game of "Telephone." I wish I could join this oral history tradition by contributing to the retelling through review, but I remain moved and amazed by this wholly original story and telling. The characters are foreign yet identifiable, unlike and identical to readers. The story unfolds from the history of these water-dwellers and from the individual burdened with that unimaginable weight. Imagine your very existence a reminder of that abominable act - and your forebears protecting you from that history by burdening a single sensitive soul with all of the history. Now, imagine your very existence is borne of that inhumanity. As a species, we humans should be sickened by it. This truth alone, that human beings were so devalued that they were tossed overboard, is horrific.
In this story, Solomon imagines the children born of these women survived, creating a new species of deep-water dweller. The basis for this novella is horrifying, and painful, and unspeakable, but totally true: pregnant enslaved African women were thrown overboard from ships crossing the Atlantic. Original, Fantastic, Historical, Relevant 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. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity - and own who they really are. 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. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. 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.
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.
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