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Chang-rae Lee: On Such a Full Sea (2014)

"From the beloved award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, a highly provocative, deeply …

Review of 'On such a full sea' on 'Goodreads'

Aspects of B-Mor--especially the gradually unfolding creation story of the community and the way this community rebelled and then drifted back to the mean over time--were very interesting. I enjoyed the narrator's voice; it was fresh and different. It was also fun trying to guess at who the narrator might be. However, our heroine's adventure was a bit of a 5-cent tour of post-apocalyptic tropes. Oh, here's the impossibly safe and normal place which will be destroyed while we watch. Ah, here's the redneck cannibal. There's the very civilized home, secretly filled with enslaved victims of mental torture.