Yetu holds the memories of her people, the wajinru, water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African
... slave women thrown overboard by slavers now living idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one. Save the historian. Yetu remembers for all the wajinru, and the memories—painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous—are destroying her. So she flees to the surface, escaping the memories and the expectations and the responsibilities, and she discovers a world the wajinru left behind long ago. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own past and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they'll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identities, and own who they really are. Read More