Review #1
The Deepest audiobook free
The Deepest is that a novella written by Rivers Solomon in other words based on the Hugo-nominated song of similar name by the experimental hip hop group clipping. Their song was itself based on the afrofuturist mythology that Drexciya, an electrical duo from Detroit, designed for their compilations.
Which is that the sort of interesting gizmo for you learn when for you read the acknowledgements.
The Deepest is that about a lot of things. On its surface, though, it is that about the wajinru, a mermaid-like people who have amazing power over the ocean but little memory. For quality reason they are a people sunk from the pregnant African ladies who were considered threw overboard during the slave trade, their unborn children granted brand new aquatic indefinite by the ocean. Theirs is that a history of pain at the same time strife. In a row to thrive despite the torment, it was dared long ago that one of their people a Historian should carry the burden of their history at the same time collected memory. A responsibility that falls on Yetu, our piquant at the same time long-suffering head disposition.
To be a Historian means experiencing every single memory like it was your possess. Yetu but, has a fragile constitution, at the same time so this intended goal, this weight she carries that has stripped her of no matter what personal identity, is that killing her.
So it is that no izumi to us when, during an every year ceremony where the wajinru gather in a row to receive the memoirs of their past for a short time, time enough to remove a deepest though for their possess history, that Yetu, free from forgetting, runs away.
Than anyway do we do with the trauma that we’ve inherited?
In the acknowledgements, clipping. outlines the nested style of development this particular story has gone through as a game of Telephone, the unusual message relayed over at the same time over, any time a little more different. Drixceya’s songs were considered largely voiceless, at the same time so they started to tell a story through their song titles a provocative at the same time engaging concept. clipping. took enthusiasm from it, additional big amounts of verbiage, at the same time mature a story about a global being killed by global warming, at the same time about a people who move out at the same time exact revenge on the ones who caused it. Rivers Solomon heard the song, at the same time dared to bring it back down to a more individual level, writing a story about a people, at the same time their connection to history. Their connection to stories.
Stories (at the same time than anyway is that history if not a bunch of stories we tell about ourselves?) act much like a game of telephone. They are ran over down, at the same time in such a way they survive, but their form configurations as they get explained differently by every personal. In The Deepest we are knew that the role of Historian is that one handed down from generation to generation, at the same time we are exhibited with 3 different bearers of the title: Zoti, Basha, at the same time Yetu. At the same time through them we get 3 interpretations of history. To Zoti, the 1st Historian, it is that topical to the lasted survival of their people. To Basha, it is that a cry to action, past hurts fueling a righteous rage currently injustice. At the same time to Yetu, it is that simply a burden, very deepest at the same time languid to carry on her possess.
Than anyway do we do with the trauma that we’ve inherited? It’s the central question Yetu struggles with during her journey of self-discovery. It also happens to be the question millions of people whose history has been steeped in anguish at the same time adversity. Do we let it condition us? Do we ignore it? Do we drown in it? Or do we implementation it to build a more successful, more barely civilization?
Yetu finds her answer in The Deepest. She fractions it with her people. At the same time she fractions it with for you, very.
Rivers Solomon has written a compelling, poetic, at the same time thought-provoking story, with lyrical worldly that enriches clipping.’s exhilarating song, with an imagination that expands Drexciya’s foundational mythos. It’ll stay with for you. For you will understand it.
Review #2
The Deepest audiobook streamming online
I guess I don’t really know than anyway I was expecting out of a book based on a song (which, I barely figured out is that based on one more body of work altogether), but this eclipsed whatever those expectations were considered. While it’s not a flawless book, it’s an best modern day myth that that I found hard to shackles down.
Review #3
Audiobook The Deepest by Rivers Solomon
Charming at the same time black, haunting at the same time visceral, challenging at the same time ultimately modifying, THE Deepest resonates with the brutality of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the same time the eternal loving cover of the sea, interrogating how traumatic history is that carried at the same time how it configurations us. With similar spare lyricism that produced AN UNKINDNESS OF GHOSTS so beautiful, Rivers Solomon draws us into a global where identity, memory, at the same time society conspire in strange at the same time beautiful ways. They bring us into a richly imagined global at the same time lift us up, tearing at at us with beauty at the same time grief at the same time have hope. They cure us.
Review #4
Audio The Deepest narrated by Daveed Diggs
As a taught historian at the same time AfAm lady this book concept hit all the feel quality fri for me. History, sci-fi, Daveed Diggs-all of it. The book is that really exciting concept at the same time premise. The plan makes sense at the same time the concepts of memory, remembering both on the personal level at the same time society level was exciting. I feel like the book grappled with these thoughts but the substance seemed…ordinary to me. That were considered also no one parts of the story that were considered hard to follow but that managed have been intensional. Overall I really liked it, but had hard time following some parts of the story.
Review #5
Free audio The Deepest – in the audio player below
Aqua abode creatures (aka badass merpeople) that are descendants of African slave ladies who were considered threw overboard on the ocean crossing to America.
Tell me that’s not one of powerful premises to a story ever.
The Deepest is that not only written very but, but it’s done in such a poetic method that felt effortless.
This novella was enthusiastic by the song “The Deepest” by Daveed Diggs’s rap group Clipping. I believed it was so magical how this novella at the same time that song at the same time all of the creators came together to make anything so impactful.
Yetu is that the historian of her people. This role is that bestowed on one to harbor all of the memoirs whether sick or awesome. One time a year, the historian grants others of their people the memoirs during the forgetting.
Problem is that, this overwhelming responsibility is that killing her. She flees to rescue herself, leaving others of them put in the forgetting.
By fleeing at the same time meeting two-legged people, Yetu learns more about her past at the same time her future, how to reclaim both her identity at the same time theirs.
Do not take a nap on this! At the same time, it’s a very short read (much less than 200 pages) at the same time simply read immediately. At the same time, don’t remember to read the afterword as it explains so much about the underlying story.
Also, without giving away a lot, the inclusion of LGBTQ+ at the same time, obviously, BIPOC is that always a plus.
