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Queer FantasyQueer Science FictionMermaids & Sea Creatures

The Deep

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  • 2019 first published
  • 177 pages
  • ★ 4.0 (8 ratings)
  • 9 editions
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Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs and William Hutson's The Deep (2019) is a queer fantasy and queer science fiction novel. It deals with mermaids, slavery, africans and collective memory.

Open Library readers give it an average of 4.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, and 66 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 9 editions across 4 languages.

At about 177 pages, most readers finish it in 3–4 hours.

About The Deep

Yetu 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. Yetu 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. Yetu 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.
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Awards & lists

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Subjects

  • Science fiction
  • LGBTQ science fiction & fantasy
  • Lambda Literary Awards
  • Lambda Literary Award Winner
  • Mermaids
  • Slavery
  • Africans
  • Collective memory
  • Historians
  • Mermaids and mermen
  • Memory
  • Identity, Psychology
  • Fantasy

Quick answers

Who wrote The Deep?

The Deep was written by Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs and William Hutson and first published in 2019.

What genre is The Deep?

It is usually shelved as Queer Fantasy, Queer Science Fiction and Mermaids & Sea Creatures.

How long is The Deep?

The median edition has 177 pages, about 3–4 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to The Deep?

Readers who like it often enjoy Into the Drowning Deep, The Devourers and The Gracekeepers.

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