Rivers Solomon. (2019). The Deep. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.

Rivers Solomon. 2019. The Deep. Simon & Schuster Audio.

Rivers Solomon, The Deep. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2019.

Rivers Solomon. The Deep. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio, 2019.

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   • bioText: William Hutson is a composer, known for Room 237 (2012), The Mayor (2017), and Ten Minutes Is Two Hours (2013). He is part of the rap group Clipping. Find him on Twitter @Clppng.
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Winner of the 2021 Audie Award
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019

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's rap group clipping
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. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the 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 responsibilities—and discovers a world her people left behind long ago.

Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past—and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they'll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity—and own who they really are.

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.

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     Starred review from April 22, 2019
     This extraordinary short novel is at least the third creative iteration of a premise built on the documented drowning of pregnant African women by white male slave traders. Imagining that the infants survived as a community of mer-people was the contribution of the techno group Drexciya. In turn, the experimental rap group Clipping (Diggs, Hutson, and Snipes) was inspired to collaboratively develop “The Deep,” a song about conflict between people of the sea and people of the land. Now Solomon (An Unkindness of Ghosts) steps forward with a prose version that is by turns meditative, didactic, and rawly angry. The focus is Yetu, a historian for an undersea community that calls itself wajinru and cultivates collective forgetfulness of its agonizing past, backstopped by the one member who bears the burden of holding the entire community’s memories. It is too much for Yetu, and amid the excruciating annual ritual of sharing out and then taking back the rememberings, she flees her people. Her burden of memory is lifted, but her burden of responsibility has only shifted, as her choice to free herself from her role has devastating consequences. Solomon interrogates the devastations of slavery without ever showing a white perspective, in a tour de force reorientation of the storytelling gaze. This superb, multilayered work will speak to any empathetic reader, and be best appreciated by those steeped in its cultural and artistic context.

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   • content: Narrator Daveed Diggs brings his unique voice to Rivers Solomon's collaborative novella, THE DEEP, inspired by a song of the same name, written by Diggs's band, Clipping. Diggs explores his multilayered world through the voice of Yetu, the historian of an ocean-dwelling people called the Wajinru, descended from pregnant African women thrown overboard during the transatlantic slave trade. Diggs brings different voices to the generations of characters but relies more on description than changes in tone to express emotion. While the story itself was inspired by music and is interwoven with music and sound, there is little reflection of this in the audio production. Although the lack of musicality seems like a missed opportunity, Solomon's words stand strongly on their own. H.C. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine

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Winner of the 2021 Audie Award
ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019

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's rap group clipping
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1. • source: Audio Publishers Association
   • value: Audie Award
2. • source: World Science Fiction Society
   • value: Hugo Award Nominee
3. • source: Audio Publishers Association
   • value: Audie Award Nominee
4. • source: Lambda Literary Foundation
   • value: Lambda Literary Awards (Lammys)

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   • description: Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
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