{"product_id":"on-such-a-full-sea-9781594632891","title":"On Such a Full Sea","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Watching a talented writer take a risk is one of the pleasures of devoted reading, and \u003ci\u003eOn Such a Full Sea \u003c\/i\u003eprovides all that and more. . . . With \u003ci\u003eOn Such a Full Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, [Chang-rae Lee] has found a new way to explore his old preoccupation: the oft-told tale of the desperate, betraying, lonely human heart.\"--Andrew Sean Greer, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I've never been a fan of grand hyperbolic declarations in book reviews, but faced with \u003ci\u003eOn Such a Full Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, I have no choice but to ask: Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee today?\"--Porochista Khakpour, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the beloved award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eNative Speaker, The Surrendered\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMy Year Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman's legendary quest in a shocking, future America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eOn Such a Full Sea \u003c\/i\u003etakes 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/02\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781594632891\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/14\/2014 pg. 44\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Chang-Rae Lee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197352800437,"sku":"9781594632891","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_fed67330-13d5-467d-aba7-0581354a4b68.jpg?v=1769623384","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/on-such-a-full-sea-9781594632891","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}