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A Tender Age : A Novel.
'A Tender Age' is an exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, who is on the precipice of adult knowledge, looking at his own culpability and looking away - then thinking about it for the rest of his life. A NYT Most Anticipated Book of 2026.
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- ISBN: 9798217048441
- Physical Description: 368 pages
- Publisher: Canada : Penguin Publishing Group, 2026.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | FICTION / Asian American FICTION / Coming of Age FICTION / Literary |
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âWho is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?ââThe Los Angeles Times
"He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself." âJhumpa Lahiri
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence.
A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, A Tender Age 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.
Devastating in its emotional precision, A Tender Age 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 awayâthen thinking about it for the rest of his life.
