The Deep
(Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read)
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 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.
The Deep is "a tour de force reorientation of the storytelling gaze...a superb, multilayered work," (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a vividly original and uniquely affecting story inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping.
If you are having problem transferring a title to your device, please fill out this support form or visit the library so we can help you to use our eBooks and eAudio Books.
Rivers Solomon. (2019). The Deep. S&S/Saga Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Rivers Solomon. 2019. The Deep. S&S/Saga Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Rivers Solomon, The Deep. S&S/Saga Press, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Rivers Solomon. The Deep. S&S/Saga Press, 2019.
| Library | Owned | Available |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Digital Collection | 2 | 1 |
There are 2 holds on this title.
OverDrive Product Record
- sortTitle
- Deep
- crossRefId
- 4501286
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{D550E101-89CE-4970-A8C5-38EB1756EA60}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0439-1/{D550E101-89CE-4970-A8C5-38EB1756EA60}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0439-1/{D550E101-89CE-4970-A8C5-38EB1756EA60}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0439-1/{D550E101-89CE-4970-A8C5-38EB1756EA60}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- formats
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781534439887
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B07MKDLSLZ
- name: Kindle Book
- id: ebook-kindle
- identifiers:
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781534439887
- name: OverDrive Read
- id: ebook-overdrive
- identifiers:
- mediaType
- eBook
- primaryCreator
- role: Author
- name: Rivers Solomon
- id
- D550E101-89CE-4970-A8C5-38EB1756EA60
- title
- The Deep
- starRating
- 3.8
- dateAdded
- 2019-10-31T17:02:00Z
- contentDetails
- href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=4501286
- type: text/html
- account:
- name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
- id: 1151
OverDrive MetaData
- isPublicDomain
- False
- formats
- fileName: TheDeep_9781534439887_4501286
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 2623635
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781534439887
- rights:
- type: Copying
- value: 0
- type: Printing
- value: 0
- type: Lending
- value: 0
- type: ReadAloud
- value: 0
- type: ExpirationRights
- value: 0
- name: Adobe EPUB eBook
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-epub-adobe
- onSaleDate: 11/5/2019
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d550e101-89ce-4970-a8c5-38eb1756ea60&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: TheDeep_4501286
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ASIN
- value: B07MKDLSLZ
- name: Kindle Book
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-kindle
- onSaleDate: 11/5/2019
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d550e101-89ce-4970-a8c5-38eb1756ea60&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- fileName: TheDeep_9781534439887_4501286
- partCount: 0
- fileSize: 0
- identifiers:
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781534439887
- name: OverDrive Read
- isReadAlong: False
- id: ebook-overdrive
- onSaleDate: 11/5/2019
- samples:
- source: From the book
- formatType: ebook-overdrive
- url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d550e101-89ce-4970-a8c5-38eb1756ea60&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
- keywords
- value: Africa
- value: racism
- value: Mythology
- value: Media Tie-In
- value: Slave trade
- value: activism
- value: african
- value: Hugo Award
- value: fairy tale
- value: rap
- value: Disney
- value: Civil Rights
- value: black
- value: Hamilton
- value: LGBTQ
- value: race
- value: queer
- value: black panther
- value: Novella
- value: Mermaids
- value: Hip Hop
- value: Music
- value: Social Justice
- value: african diaspora
- value: Octavia Butler
- value: LGBTQIA
- value: black lives matter
- value: afrofuturism
- value: the little mermaid
- value: this american life
- value: #blacklivesmatter
- value: nnedi okorafor
- value: blm
- value: live action
- value: 2023
- value: African fantasy
- value: black fantasy
- value: climate fiction
- value: african mythology
- value: nk jemisin
- value: clipping
- value: wakanda
- value: Sub Pop
- value: tomi adeyemi
- value: black mermaid
- value: Audie award winner
- value: halle bailey
- value: npr best books of 2019
- value: 2021 audie awards
- value: black mythology
- value: winner of the audie award
- creators
- role: Author
- fileAs: Solomon, Rivers
- bioText: Rivers Solomon is the author of An Unkindness of Ghosts, and was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award finalist for Best New Writer. They graduated from Stanford University with a degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity and hold an MFA in fiction writing from the Michener Center for Writers. Though originally from the United States, they currently live in Cambridge, England, with their family. Find them on Twitter @CyborgYndroid.
- name: Rivers Solomon
- role: Author
- fileAs: Diggs, Daveed
- bioText: Daveed Diggs is an actor, singer, producer, writer, and rapper. He is the vocalist of the experimental hip hop group Clipping. Diggs originated the role of Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the 2015 musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda which he won a Grammy and Tony for. He also cowrote, produced, and stars in the film Blindspotting. Find him on Twitter @DaveedDiggs.
- name: Daveed Diggs
- role: Author
- fileAs: Hutson, William
- 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.
- name: William Hutson
- role: Author
- fileAs: Snipes, Jonathan
- bioText: Jonathan Snipes is a composer and sound designer for film and theater living in Los Angeles. He occasionally teaches sound design in the theater department at UCLA, and is a member of the rap group Clipping. Find him at Jonat8han.com.
- name: Jonathan Snipes
- publishDate
- 2019-11-05T00:00:00-05:00
- isOwnedByCollections
- True
- title
- The Deep
- fullDescription
- Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel's Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, 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 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.
The Deep is "a tour de force reorientation of the storytelling gaze...a superb, multilayered work," (Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a vividly original and uniquely affecting story inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping. - reviews
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
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.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
June 1, 2019
Inspired by the Hugo Award-nominated song "The Deep" from Daveed Diggs's rap group, Clipping, this novella is set in an underwater universe inhabited by the water-breathing descendants of pregnant African women tossed overboard by slavers. All but the historian Yetu suppress their horrible memories, and the burdened Yetu finally rises to the surface to find new possibilities for her people. Diggs and other Clipping members are joined by Solomon, a John W. Campbell Award finalist for An Unkindness of Ghosts, to craft this work. With a 100,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
Starred review from August 1, 2019
Solomon's second book (after An Unkindness of Ghosts, 2017) is inspired by a song, also called "The Deep," by the hip-hop group Clipping (featuring Hamilton's Daveed Diggs). The book expands on the world of the aquatic beings descended from women thrown off slaver ships and left to drown during the Atlantic slave trade. Building off of the song's refrain "y'all remember" in particular, Solomon imagines a society of beings without individual memories known as wajinru, whose communal memory is held in one selected historian in the form of electrical signals. Yetu, the current historian, finds the continual remembering of her people's history, with all of its pain and tragedy, to be a crippling and devouring burden, so during the annual gathering in which she releases the accumulated history into the wajinru as a whole, she flees to the surface. Interspersing the collective memories of the wajinru with Yetu's encounters above water, Solomon's beautiful novella weaves together a moving and evocative narrative that imagines a future created from the scars of the past. Highly recommended for those interested in sf or fantasy that draws upon the legacies of colonialism and racism to imagine different, exciting types of futures.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)
- premium: True
- source:
- content:
Starred review from September 1, 2019
Yetu is the historian for the wajinru, an undersea population of merpeople. Their collective memory of their origins as pregnant African women thrown overboard by white slavers is held by Yetu alone. The wajinru exist in forgetfulness, as it has been decided that the agony of their past is too much to bear. The historian carries the burden until the Remembering, a yearly ritual that lets the historian share the memories to the population, then take them all back. Yetu struggles under the weight of her duty, and flees her home in hopes of escaping. But as she leaves behind her agony and meets the people of the land that her ancestors left long ago, her burden shifts to those who aren't ready to accept it. Yetu is tasked with finding a way to reconnect the past to all before her people's future is lost. This vivid, devastating work is in its third incarnation: it started with the inspired mythology created by techno-electro group Drexciya, morphed into a song by rap group Clipping (Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes), and then was turned to prose by Solomon (An Unkindness of Ghosts). VERDICT This slim story packs a huge punch. Beautiful and stark in its pain, this emotional journey is one that all readers should take, in order to remember the atrocities of slavery. [See "Fall Fireworks," LJ 8/19.]--Kristi Chadwick, Massachusetts Lib. Syst., Northampton
Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
- popularity
- 2016
- links
- self:
- href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/d550e101-89ce-4970-a8c5-38eb1756ea60/metadata
- type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json
- self:
- id
- d550e101-89ce-4970-a8c5-38eb1756ea60
- starRating
- 3.8
- images
- cover:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/0439-1/{D550E101-89CE-4970-A8C5-38EB1756EA60}IMG100.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- thumbnail:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/0439-1/{D550E101-89CE-4970-A8C5-38EB1756EA60}IMG200.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover150Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/0439-1/{D550E101-89CE-4970-A8C5-38EB1756EA60}IMG150.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover300Wide:
- href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/0439-1/{D550E101-89CE-4970-A8C5-38EB1756EA60}IMG400.JPG
- type: image/jpeg
- cover:
- isPublicPerformanceAllowed
- False
- languages
- code: en
- name: English
- subjects
- value: Fantasy
- value: Fiction
- value: African American Fiction
- value: Science Fiction
- publishDateText
- 11/05/2019
- otherFormatIdentifiers
- type: ISBN
- value: 9781534439870
- mediaType
- eBook
- shortDescription
- Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel's Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, 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 about her own past—and about the future of her people.... - sortTitle
- Deep
- crossRefId
- 4501286
- awards
- source: World Science Fiction Society
- value: Hugo Award Nominee
- source: Lambda Literary Foundation
- value: Lambda Literary Awards (Lammys)
- publisher
- S&S/Saga Press
- bisacCodes
- code: FIC028000
- description: Fiction / Science Fiction / General
- code: FIC049000
- description: Fiction / African American & Black / General
