In 2018, they received the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Award in Fiction 2 for their debut novel, An Unkindness of Ghosts, and in 2020 their second novel, The Deep, won the Lambda Literary Award. Yetu was so relatable to me because of all the pain, confusion, resistance, love and respect that she feels towards her responsibility to remember the past. Rivers Solomon is an American author of speculative and literary fiction. But Yetu soon realizes her true power, and what she must do to save her people. That remembering is destroying her, so she swims away from home to heal and forget. Where an underwater society of people protect the Deep, protect the memory of their first mothers, the pregnant African women thrown overboard by slavers in the Middle Passage, and have the power to guide the ocean towards calm or chaos.Īt the center of this story is Yetu, the young historian who is charged with remembering all of the pain and joy of her people. The Deep started as a song by then expanded to a book by which felt like reading a movie.Įscape into a world where we the land-dwelling two-legged are not alone.
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