{"product_id":"a-tender-age-isbn-9798217048441","title":"A Tender Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?”—\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself.\" —Jhumpa Lahiri \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, \u003ci\u003eA Tender Age\u003c\/i\u003e joins the rich tradition of the American bildungsroman. The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caufield, Korean-American Jeon-Gi is torn between competing ideas of himself. At home, his working-class parents dote on him. Outside, he is part of a roving pack of kids with dominion over a derelict baseball field, weedy parking lot, and rusty jungle gym. Getting into and out of trouble is all-consuming. But the summer he turns eleven, he becomes embroiled in a staggering series of events reverberating far beyond himself and his family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDevastating in its emotional precision, \u003ci\u003eA Tender Age\u003c\/i\u003e captures a family and community in striking distance of the American dream, and a young person on the precipice of adult knowledge, looking at his own culpability and looking away—then thinking about it for the rest of his life.\u003cu\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Chang-rae Lee\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I have no choice but to ask: Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Nothing is rushed; nothing is overlooked… Lee understands that in art and in stories what is perhaps most valuable is not what can be explained but what can be felt.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e–The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The prose Chang-rae Lee writes is elliptical, riddling, poetic...beautifully made.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Chang-rae Lee] explores the fundamental human desires to be seen and to love.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lee’s writing style, as usual, is alive with wit and satiric social commentary… boisterous and fun.” —\u003cb\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eChang-rae Lee \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of six other novels, including \u003ci\u003eNative Speaker\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Hemingway Foundation\/PEN Award for first fiction, and \u003ci\u003eThe Surrendered\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A 2021 winner of the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Stanford University.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232900559077,"sku":"NP9798217048441","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9798217048441.jpg?v=1767720849","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-tender-age-isbn-9798217048441","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}