I am not only a classicist, someone who keeps alive literature from the ancient world, but I am also Jewish. It is also about how remembering keeps a people and a culture alive, something I have personal experience with. This book is about memory and who holds memories, whose job it is to remember. The Deep is about one such Historian, Yetu, who breaks from tradition to find herself, and ultimately reconnect with the history of her people. In this group of people there is what is called the Historian, who holds all of the memories and, of course, history of the wajinru as a whole. The premise is that the African slaves who were dumped off the side of slave ships gave birth to water-breathing children who then became mermaid-like creatures called the wajinru. The Deep by Rivers Solomon is absolutely a five-star read.
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