![]() ![]() 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. I'll be posting the voting thread for our March pick tomorrow, February 19th, so be sure to swing by around then to vote for what book we'll read next. Feel free to answer the discussion questions I'll be posting below or to make your own questions as well. ![]() Spoilers may be discussed so read ahead at your own peril. Welcome to the FIF book club! Today we're discussing all of The Deep by Rivers Solomon. ![]()
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