See this link to hear a reading of an except from On Such a Full Sea on NPR.
Chang-rae Lee’s new novel, On Such a Full Sea, opens in a surprisingly contented dystopia: Hundreds of years in the future, the world has unraveled; in America, the government has crumbled and the population has fled. But its abandoned cities have been given new life by immigrant workers, moved in by big multinational corporations to provide pristine fish and produce to elite enclaves. In B-mor (once known as Baltimore), workers from China have built a relatively stable and prosperous community — though outside the walls of B-mor, the open counties are still lawless and rough. But despite its malls and entertainments, its sense of family and tradition, all is not well in B-mor. The stench of the open counties comes in over the high walls — and people have been disappearing. In this excerpt, our unnamed narrator lays out the rhythms of life in B-mor.
https://www.npr.org/2013/12/24/232206171/exclusive-first-read-chang-rae-lees-on-such-a-full-sea
See also here an NPR review.
https://www.npr.org/2014/01/09/255855361/an-innocent-alone-in-an-unforgiving-world