A deeply influential writer about race, class and immigrant life in America, Chang-rae Lee has been honored with top prizes including a PEN/Hemingway Prize and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. In his highly praised novel On Such a Full Sea, newly published in paperback, Lee offers a departure from his earlier work: a chilling dystopia, a century or so beyond the present, where abandoned post-industrial cities have been converted into forced labor colonies and populated with immigrant workers. Environmental catastrophes have laid waste to much of the world, a cancer-like disease has infected the entire population, and stratification by class and race is more pronounced and horrific than ever. The fate of the world may lay in the hands of one tiny, nervy girl who jolts the labor colony by running away. Lee reads and discusses his novel at this paperback launch event; book signing to follow.

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