Unfortunate generations born to African women thrown overboard during the slave trade years build a new, magical life in the depths of the ocean. To build their future, these people, the Wajinru, must reclaim their past and remember the pain that lies there. Remembering
Yetu, who is also a "historian", is burdened by his task. She feels everything her people have experienced in the past as if she were experiencing it herself. Yetu finds it hard to bear this grief, and while she wants to get away from the past and what she remembers, she also discovers a new world, both in distant waters and in her own depths...

Rivers Solomon, one of the most acclaimed fantasy fiction writers of recent years, blends social criticism with supernatural elements in The Depths, inspired by a song by the American hip hop group Clipping. He explores the links between historiography and storytelling in a unique way.
with an imagination.

"When it hurts, sometimes the only escape is in another pain."

"This is the strange, beautiful, transformative story we need."

-Charlie Jane Anders

"An intelligent and unsettling novel about generational trauma."

- Carmen Maria Machado