{"product_id":"a-tender-age-a-novel","title":"A Tender Age by Chang-Rae Lee","description":"\u003cp\u003eA NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?”—The Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself.\" —Jhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDevastating 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47716821729429,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0715\/3424\/8085\/files\/bloodoverbrighthaven_800x800px_16_3253745a-7748-4448-910a-1a6db5afe8c6.png?v=1786571778","url":"https:\/\/storiedbookery.com\/products\/a-tender-age-a-novel","provider":"Storied Bookery \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}