There’s a real weight to it, a depth that makes the underwater world feel real and lived in. And while the story is fairly short, there’s a lot to take in. The mythology of the story is strangely poetic as it takes something horrifying and turns it into something beautiful. The narrative of Basha, one of the ancestors whose story is told in this novella, incorporates the war with the two-legs that “The Deep” speaks of. Another music group, Clipping (rapper Daveed Diggs and producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes) wrote the song “The Deep” (nominated for a Hugo award in 2018) based on that mythology. The Afterward mentions that the idea behind the wajinru comes from the mythology written by the music group Drexciya (James Stinson and Gerald Donald). The memories of the ancestors overwhelm and pain Yetu, so they conceive a plan to leave the memories behind. Pros: interesting mythology, sympathetic protagonistCons: Yetu is the Historian of the wajinru, sea dwelling descendants of pregnant slave women cast overboard. 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. 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.
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