“Watching a talented writer take a risk is among the pleasures of committed reading, and On Such a Full Sea provides everything and more . . With On Such a Full Sea, [Chang-rae Lee] offers found a fresh method to explore his previous preoccupation: the oft-told story of the desperate, betraying, lonely human being center.”-Andrew Sean Greer, The New York Times Book Review

“I’ve hardly ever been a enthusiast of grand hyperbolic declarations in publication reviews, but confronted with On Such a complete Sea, I have zero choice but to ask: Who’s about On Such a complete Sea: A Book a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee today?”-Porochista Khakpour, The LA Times

From your beloved award-winning writer of Native Speaker as well as the Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of 1 woman’s legendary quest within a shocking, future America.

On Such a Full Sea uses Chang-rae Lee’s elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and his long-standing passions in identity, lifestyle, work, and like, and lifts them to a new aircraft. Stepping in the realistic and historical territories of his previous function, Lee brings us right into a world created from scuff. Against a vividly dreamed future America, Lee tells a sensational, surprising, and riveting tale that will transformation the way visitors think about the globe they live in.

In another, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labor colonies. As well as the members from the labor class-descendants of those brought over en masse many years previously from environmentally ruined provincial China-find purpose and identity in their work to provide pristine create and fish to the tiny, elite, satellite charter villages that ring the labor arrangement.

In this world lives Fan, a female fish-tank diver, who leaves her home in the B-Mor settlement (once referred to as Baltimore), when the man she loves mysteriously disappears. Fan’s trip to discover him requires her out of the protection of B-Mor, through the anarchic Open Counties, where crime is rampant with scant governmental oversight, and to a faraway charter community, in a goal that will shortly become legend to people she left behind.