THE DEEP BY RIVERS SOLOMON

Octavia E. Butler meets MarvelsBlack PantherinThe Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Awardnominated song The Deep from Daveed Diggss rap group Clipping.

Yetu holds the memories for her peoplewater-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave ownerswho live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save onethe historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.

Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilitiesand discovers a world her people left behind long ago.

Yetu will learn more