The reviews for this book tend to focus on how sad it is. And it is a sad book, but I don’t find it to be a dreary one. The world of this future is not a hellish landscape, although it can be bleak, but instead has a changed focus. This novel is the story of a girl named Fan who leaves her enclave of B-More, an agricultural and fish-farming conglomerate on the east coast in the middle-distant future. She leaves because her companion, her […]
MelBivDevoe’s CBR Review #4 – We Must Take the Current When It Serves
In Chang-rae Lee’s dystopian vision of the future, America is divided into three classes living in three extremely different types of settlements. At the top are the Charters, protected cities in which the rich and successful dwell, spending their money on whatever fancy suits their whims. These people also are referred to as “Charters,” so the name can mean either a place or a person who lives there. Next are the facilities, former cities that have been turned into processing plants that provide the […]