The Deep Audiobook (Free)

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’s rap group clipping

Yetu keeps the memories on her behalf people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave ladies thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, as well about The Deep distressing to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role continues to be bestowed on Yetu.

Yetu remembers for everyone, as well as the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and awful and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, as well as the responsibilities—and discovers a global her people left out long ago.

Yetu will learn more than she ever likely to on the subject of her own past—and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll have to reclaim the thoughts, reclaim their identification—and own who they really are.

Inspired with a song made by the rap group Clipping for the This American Life episode “We Are IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE,” The Deep is certainly vividly original and uniquely affecting.