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On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee
3.0

It reads like a disjoint screenplay of a dystopian future version of [a:Aesop|12452|Aesop|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1219179559p2/12452.jpg]'s [b:Fables|1697960|Fables|Aesop|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1187068480s/1697960.jpg|868263] intersected with [b:A Tale of Two Cities|1953|A Tale of Two Cities|Charles Dickens|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1344922523s/1953.jpg|2956372].

Some of the contradictions and issues explored here related to labor, community, commodity, competition,love and family are depicted in very inventive settings and sub-plots.

[b:The Drowned Cities|12814594|The Drowned Cities (Ship Breaker, #2)|Paolo Bacigalupi|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1333712780s/12814594.jpg|13677912] and [b:The House of the Scorpion|13376|The House of the Scorpion (Matteo Alacran, #1)|Nancy Farmer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347695758s/13376.jpg|868252] are more my cup of tea but some of these themes read faster in purportedly YA fiction?