maisierosereads
Jul 21, 20202 min
Hi bookish friends!
How are you all today?
For the second day of the Reading Rush, I started another new book: The Deep by Rivers Solomon (goodreads).
In their afterword, clipping. describe The Deep as the product of a game of whispers. It started with the true, tragic history of pregnant people stolen from Africa and intentionally thrown into the ocean on the way to being sold as slaves. This contributed to the mythology of Drexciya, which inspired clipping. to write the song “The Deep”, which inspired Rivers Solomon to write this book. Listening to this music and reading clipping.’s afterword definitely helped to flesh out the world in which Solomon’s story is set.
Content warnings: mentions of self injury and suicidal ideation.
Have you read The Deep? Please let me know what you thought of it!
I’ll probably either choose my next read blindly or ask you to choose for me in a Twitter poll!