On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

I don't generally read dystopian novels. I don't like to think about my children going through such a time. I'm almost 71 so hopefully, I will make it out, and if we can hold it together for another 50 years or so so will my kids. That said, I loved On Such a Full Sea, it was an excellent read. our heroine Fan is resourceful, warm, caring, and moralistically sound. Her travels and trials are interesting and challenging yet she remains stoic and hopeful. This is a book that is frightening yet offers a different perspective on the possibilities of our new world order. We begin our travels in what was once Baltimore, MD and follow Fan as she travels in search of her love, Reg who disappeared from their workplace, a combination fish farm and hydro garden set up on a colossal scale. Reg works the hydro crops stationed above the fish tanks, Fan free-dives in among the fish and cleans the tanks, checks for problems in the system or the fish, makes sure everything is healthy and the fish are sound. Chang-rae Lee is able to paint this future with color and flare. You can see B-Mor as it is today, but also as it was, an abandoned community when these refugees from China settled there. The settlers of New China were homeless because the water was fouled beyond all known methods of treatment and the air quality was nil in Xixu City. The many generations of refugees in B-Mor are very careful, in this New China, to keep everything in balance. But fear begins to creep in. Just as Reg disappeared without a trace, workers begin to be 'dispatched'. One or two a month simply disappear, but the company does, now, acknowledge their disappearance. But who will be next? And where are they all 'disappeared' to?

Pretty boring,won't read the impending sequel in what is surely a trilogy drawn only for the sake of revenue; goodbye fan.