Gorgeous, haunting novella about a mythical people who live underwater, descended from pregnant women thrown overboard during the years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. 

The protagonist, Yetu, is their people’s historian and carries the memories of their traumatic past. They and their people have to grapple with balancing personal and collective identity, past pain and future joy. The descriptions are beautiful and atmospheric and the story is really engaging. There are a couple of flashback chapters that took me a while to situate in the story, and overall I think it could’ve been longer to do justice to those chapters in the Wajinru’s history.