Review: The Deep

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This was my first finished read of 2020, which seems oddly approriate for a myriad of reasons. THE DEEP by Rivers Solomon (with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes of clipping), is a quietly intimate, fantastical dive into the ocean of memory and generational wounds.

We begin with Yetu, who holds the memories of her people as the historian. Her people are the descendants of pregnant African slave women who were thrown overboard, who have now become a water-dwelling civilization...