It would be reductive to say Solomon wrote just another mermaid story rather, their novel melds history and fantasy elements to produce the story of the wajinru, a race of underwater people descended from enslaved pregnant African women who were thrown overboard slave ships during labor. Shared trauma and the ocean come to life in Rivers Solomon’s speculative fiction “The Deep.” While short, the novel approaches intergenerational trauma and identity with startling facility.
Now, the Fantasy Book Club discusses Rivers Solomon’s “The Deep.” Most recently, the Romance Book Club read “Seven Days in June” by Tia Williams.
In honor of February being Black History Month, the Michigan Daily Book Review created genre-specific book clubs to read books by Black authors released in the past five years.
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