Book Critique The Oral Memory of the B-Mors: From Ritual to Community Longing

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“Where you are,” an incomplete utterance (rumored to be) soliloquized by Fan that sparks an out-of-the-blue interest in her among the people of B-Mor is where Change-Rae Lee’s On Such A Full Sea officially takes off (Lee, 2014: 30). It is a strange tale of the B-Mor collective whispering and imagining the history of their own. The disappearance of Reg followed by Fan’s solitary quest for him trigger an unfamiliar sentiment among the B-Mors who paid little to no attention to prior disappearance (of Uncle Kellen and Auntie Virginia). Fan and Reg somehow became the talk of the town which, in the process, inspires exuberant gossips and rumors. While these gossips and rumors are iterated and transmitted, the story serves both as an oral folktale and a written narrative. As an audience, we, in consequence, simultaneously listen to the voices and the words of the B-Mors.