{"product_id":"a-tender-age-hardcover","title":"A Tender Age - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChang-Rae Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTHE BOSTON GLOBE\u003c\/i\u003e, GOODREADS, \u003ci\u003eLITERARY HUB\u003c\/i\u003e, AND \u003ci\u003eTHE MILLIONS\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.22 x 8.52 x 5.78 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45526940418224,"sku":"9798217048441","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1121\/0060\/files\/VXKScZ2W3b9798217048441.webp?v=1787153137","url":"https:\/\/sidekicksptown.com\/products\/a-tender-age-hardcover","provider":"Sidekicks Ptown","version":"1.0","type":"link"}