![]() ![]() As I read, I remembered a quote from an NPR article I’d read earlier in the year in which one of my favorite authors, Marlon James, talked about his African mythology-inspired fantasy novel Black Leopard, Red Wolf. I read this novella in December last year. But with such a heavy burden gone, Yetu takes the opportunity to escape the heavy responsibility of holding onto such painful history. She passes on these memories to other Wajinru in a ceremony called the Remembering, at the end of which she is supposed to take back the memories. The protagonist, Yetu, serves as the historian for the Wajinru and is burdened with all the memories of her people’s traumatic experiences. The Deep is a fantasy novella about a group of merpeople called the Wajinru who are actually descendants of African slaves. But although I appreciated what the story does, I didn’t like it as much as everyone else did. ![]() ![]() It made me curious to see what it’s all about, and I also thought it was pretty cool that the inspiration for it came from a rap song. ![]()
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