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Themes

n to explore memories, survival, healing, and the burden of generational trauma

But what makes the novel more than just a winning exercise in multimedia storytelling is the way this collective narrative mirrors the way Yetu and the wajinru amass memories, store them in the historians, then relive them together once a year. In the book, the wajinru's method is not perfect — hence their gradual loss of their true origins. But it's an organic process that gives new meaning to the idea of a living document; a telepathic tradition of history that points profoundly at the many ways humanity records, and fails to record, its own past.(npr)

https://queersff.theillustratedpage.net/2020/04/15/the-deep-by-rivers-solomon/

Representation Includes Each individual member of Yetu’s species possesses both sex organs; gender in their society is self-determined and there’s no transphobia; there’s no homophobia or heteronormativity Yetu is neurodivergent and reads as autistic Yetu has a relationship with a female character that could be read as a romance or perhaps a queerplatonic relationship

lists?

like List of science fiction authors - list of women sci/fi fantasy authors? LGBTQ?

list of Israeli women authors? Filmmakers?