Book Of The Month | July

The wajinru, are water-breathing merfolk, the descendants of thousands of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard from slave ships crossing the Atlantic. The women drowned, but their babies survived, and eventually developed into their current form. They have built their own idyllic underwater society. Only one person—Yetu, the historian—holds all their often-traumatic memories, so the rest are spared the pain. The historian must suppress all their own personality and desire, and only once a year, the entire community relives the memories together.

The burden she carries threatens to destroy Yetu, so she flees to the surface, finding herself trapped in a tidal pool, and somehow able to breathe air. Here, she meets some of the dreaded "two-legs", and in particular, Oori, who is also, in her own way, a memory-keeper of her people. Oori brings Yetu fish to eat, and the two develop a bond. Yetu comes to realize that not all the two-legs are white slave traders. It becomes clear, however, that the surface-dwellers are yet again a threat to the survival of the wajinru, as energy companies desire the fossil fuels lying below the ocean bed: "Below us, deep beneath the sand, there is a substance they crave. It is their life force. They feast on it like blood."

The wajinru must strike back at those threatening to destroy them, and wreak havoc on the environment.

-Wikipedia

Have you read this book? If so what are your thoughts? Are we friends on Goodreads? If not what are you waiting for we can read together?? Let’s chat over there or come back at the end of the month for ratings and my thoughts.