![]() Yetu is a wonderful, complex character who has been carrying her community’s memories since she was fourteen. ![]() I’ve been really excited to read this Nebula-nominated novella by Solomon, who previously wrote “An Unkindness of Ghosts.” Like the other book, this one is a meditation on individual and community trauma which centers the perspectives of Black queer and non-neurotypical characters. Only one “historian” among them is chosen to remember their traumatic past, while the others blissfully forget – but this history is a burden that can’t be borne alone.Īutistic Character(s): Yetu, the young historian whose point of view carries most of the book and Oori, a human she befriends when she escapes to the surface. The Plot: The wajinru, a group of mermaid-like creatures in the deep sea, are the descendants of pregnant African women thrown overboard from slave ships. ![]() Today’s Book: “The Deep” by Rivers Solomon ![]()
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