It is a poetic rumination about the nature of memories, our individual and communal experiences with our histories and healing transgenerational trauma. I was wrong, of course, and my friend did manage to undersell the book just enough for it to surprise me. A friend of mine had told me that The Deep was more about memory and history, but still with the image of that mockumentary in my head, I somehow thought it would have been something else, a deep-sea adventure story involving mermaids and whales. When I saw the cover of The Deep by Rivers Solomon, my mind immediately bounced back to the 2013 Animal Planet docufiction Mermaids: The Body Found.
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