Jonathan Snipes

Yetu holds the memories for her people--water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners--who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one--the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu, who remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And...