On Such a Full Sea

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Watching a talented writer take risks is a pleasure of devoted reading, and this novel provides that and more. It offers a new way to explore the oft-told tale of the desperate, lonely human heart. From the award-winning author of *Native Speaker* and *The Surrendered*, this deeply affecting story follows one woman’s legendary quest in a shocking, future America. The prose is elegant, and the storytelling masterful, lifting themes of identity, culture, work, and love to a new plane. Set in a long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Abandoned urban neighborhoods have become highwalled, self-contained labor colonies, where descendants of those brought from environmentally ruined China find purpose in providing pristine produce and fish to elite charter villages. In this world lives Fan, a fish-tank diver who leaves her home in B-Mor (formerly Baltimore) when the man she loves mysteriously disappears. Her journey takes her from the safety of B-Mor through the anarchic Open Counties, rife with crime and minimal governance, to a distant charter village. This quest will soon become legendary to those she left behind, changing the way readers think about their own world.