This novella explores this mythos even further, illustrating the relationship between this underwater society with their collective memory. It's a story about multigenerational trauma and cultural memory, about healing as a community, the importance of remembrance, but also, the pain that the past can hold. It obviously deals with heavy topics and, while dark, it also shares a lot of hope and comfort. Rivers Solomon also gets to explore queer love and queer bodies, so there's also an element of that in the novella.

Beautifully written, this short novella almost made me cry with the ending, with how utterly hopeful it was after showing us very real horrors people are capable of doing, and it's hard to get it out of my head. Just like Sorrowland.