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A Tender Age

From the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novelist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescenceA spellbinding exploration of 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 coming-of-age novel. 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 away – then thinking about it for the rest of his life.'Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?' Los Angeles Times'He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself.' Jhumpa Lahiri

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Paperback - Trade paperback (UK)
ISBN: 9781398562950 · Summit Books UK
1 Sep 2026
RRP
$34.99
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Upcoming