Pulitzer-prize nominated author Chang-rae Lee's latest novel is a subtle, dystopian tale, set in a future in which class divisions are as literal as they are figurative. It's a departure from the realism of his other writing, but at its heart, the book is about the question that has always concerned Lee: how does the individual fit into the human collective? He joins us to talk about On Such a Full Sea. (Rebroadcast)
Chang-rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker [Amazon|Indiebound], winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN/Hemingway Award for first fiction; A Gesture Life [Amazon|Indiebound]; Aloft [Amazon|Indiebound]; and The Surrendered [Amazon|Indiebound], winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book is called On Such a Full Sea [Amazon|Indiebound]. Lee is a professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.