Chang-rae Lee: On Such A Full Sea

Details: Thursday, February 06 , 2014 | 6:30 PM

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Event Link: Chang-rae Lee, a second-generation Korean American, immigrated to the United States with his family when he was 3 years old. He was raised in Westchester, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a degree in English and from the University of Oregon with a MFA in writing. He worked as a Wall Street analyst for a year before turning to writing full time.   He is the author of Native Speaker, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, A Gesture Life, Aloft, and The Surrendered, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Selected by The New Yorker as one of the twenty best writers under forty, Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Princeton University.   Susan Choi was born in South Bend, Indiana, and raised there and in Houston, Texas. She studied literature at Yale and writing at Cornell, and worked for several years as a fact-checker for The New Yorker.   Her first novel, <a href="http://www.susanchoi.com/the-foreign-student-by-susan-choi/">The Foreign Student</a>, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction, and her second novel, <a href="http://www.susanchoi.com/american-woman-by-susan-choi/" target="_blank">American Woman</a>, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. With David Remnick she co-edited the anthology Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker.  Her third novel,<a href="http://www.susanchoi.com/a-person-of-interest-home-page/" target="_blank"> A Person of Interest</a>, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award.  In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, Pete Wells, and their sons.
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Custom HTML field 2 title: On Such a Full Sea takes Chang-rae Lee’s elegance of prose, his masterly storytelling, and 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. In a future, long-declining America, society is strictly stratified by class. Long-abandoned urban neighborhoods have been repurposed as highwalled, self-contained labor colonies. And 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, elite, satellite charter villages that ring the labor settlement. In this world lives Fan, a female fish-tank diver, who leaves her home in the B-Mor settlement (once known as Baltimore), when the man she loves mysteriously disappears. Fan’s journey to find him takes her out of the safety of B-Mor, through the anarchic Open Counties, where crime is rampant with scant governmental oversight, and to a faraway charter village, in a quest that will soon become legend to those she left behind. On Such A Full Sea goes on sale January 7, 2014.
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Chang-rae Lee, the award-winning author of Native Speaker and The Surrendered, has written a fifth book, On Such a Full Sea, which is a highly provocative, deeply affecting story of one woman’s legendary quest in a shocking, future America. Following the January publication of this much anticipated new novel, Chang-rae Lee sits down with fellow writer Susan Choi, whose most recent novel is the acclaimed My Education, to discuss his new book; his writing and exploration of identity and culture; as well as his personal story.

The conversation will be followed by a book sale and signing of On Such a Full Sea.

Thursday, February 6, 2014 | 6:30 PM

The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue, 8th floor
New York, NY 10022

Explorers and Above: Free

Members: $10

Nonmembers: $20

Students: $10

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