{"product_id":"the-deep-by-rivers-solomon","title":"THE DEEP BY RIVERS SOLOMON","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOctavia E. Butler meets Marvel’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBlack Panther\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Deep\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group Clipping.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYetu 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. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own past—and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity—and own who they really are.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Deep\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eis “a tour de force reorientation of the storytelling gaze…a superb, multilayered work,” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, starred review) and a vividly original and uniquely affecting story inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePAPERBACK BOOK\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Games and Stuff","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45974614442230,"sku":"9781534439870","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3303\/7465\/files\/51EdPFNxnfL._SY445_SX342.jpg?v=1759884906","url":"https:\/\/www.gamesandstuffonline.com\/products\/the-deep-by-rivers-solomon","provider":"Games and Stuff","version":"1.0","type":"link"}