Summary: In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been re-purposed as high-walled, self-contained labor colonies. 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 and elite satellite charter villages that ring the labor settlement. "On Such a Full Sea" takes Chang-rae Lee's elegance of prose and masterly storytelling, along with 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. Lee is also the author of "Native Speaker," winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First fiction, "A Gesture Life," "Aloft" and "The Surrendered. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.
