num_pages: 407
description: Against a vividly imagined future America Lee tells a stunning surprising and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in.On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose his masterly storytelling and his long-standing interests in identity culture work and love and lifts them to a new plane. Stepping from the realistic and historical territories of his previous work Lee brings us into a world created from scratch. Against a vividly imagined future America Lee tells a stunning surprising and riveting story that will change the way readers think about the world they live in.In a future long-declining America society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled self-contained labor colonies. And the members of the labor class - descendants of those brought over en masse many years earlier from environmentally ruined provincial China - find purpose and identity in their work to provide pristine produce and fish to the small elite satellite charter villages that ring the labor settlement. In this world lives Fan a female fish-tank diver who leaves her home in the B-Mor settlement (once known as Baltimore) when the man she loves mysteriously disappears. Fan's journey to find him takes her out of the safety of B-Mor through the anarchic Open Counties where crime is rampant with scant governmental oversight and to a faraway charter village in a quest that will soon become legend to those she left behind.
language: English
title: On Such a Full Sea
publisher: Riverhead Books