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ON SUCH A FULL SEA by Chang-Rae Lee - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKSee all titles by Chang-Rae Lee.
From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman’s legendary quest in a shocking, future America.
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.
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