On Such a Full Sea

Two hundred years in the future, America is divided into three kinds of settlements. The "Charters" offer secure, gated privilege. The "open counties" are dangerous and lawless. "Facilities" are former cities where workers live and manufacture goods and produce food. Fan is a young woman who works on a fish farm in the former Baltimore, now known as B-more. She is descended from Chinese immigrants but breaks rank with her ethnic clan, falls in love with Reg, and becomes pregnant. When Reg disappears (likely taken by the Charters to be the subject of medical experimentation), Fan sets out to find him. Lee (The Surrendered) keeps his imagined world plausible, though the story, told by a faceless resident of B-more, is more bleak than happy. B.D. Wong's narration is perfect for the B-morean: flat without a hint of irony and a slight Asian accent.