Rivers Solomon, Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes · 2019 · Novel
Setting: secondary world (underwater)
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.
Source: OpenLibrary
Tags: Science fictionFictionLGBTQ science fiction & fantasyLambda Literary AwardsLambda Literary Award WinnerAmerican literatureMermaidsSlaveryAfricansCollective memory
isfdb_id: 2514516
openlibrary_id: OL20411800W
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