{"product_id":"2940169949384","title":"The Deep","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society amp;mdash; 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' rap group, Clipping.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYetu holds the memories for her people amp;mdash; water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners amp;mdash; who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one amp;mdash; the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYetu 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 amp;mdash; and discovers a world her people left behind long ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past amp;mdash; and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they¿ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity amp;mdash; and own who they really are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping for the \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e episode \"We Are in the Future\", \u003ci\u003eThe Deep\u003c\/i\u003e is vividly original and uniquely affecting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114861576432,"sku":"2940169949384","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169949384_p0.jpg?v=1763790789","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169949384","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}