{"product_id":"9798217048441","title":"A Tender Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, GOODREADS, AND\u003ci\u003e LITERARY HUB\u003c\/i\u003e\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\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.","brand":"Chang-rae Lee","offers":[{"title":"Penguin Publishing Group |  Hardback  |  2026-08-11","offer_id":48468409647359,"sku":"9798217048441","price":41.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c15d2a51-8c9f-4b33-80dd-81091039c9ec.jpg?v=1777563995","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9798217048441","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}