A Tender Age
From the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novelist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence 'Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?'Ā 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 āChang-rae Lee can do no wrong in my mind ā I devoured Leeās last novel,Ā My Year Abroad, and I canāt wait for this one.ā LitHub āLeeās latest novel is a tale of almosts: a family of working-class immigrants almost living the American dream; an 11-year-old boy, almost transitioning into adulthood and straddling the worlds of his doting Korean parents and a semi-feral gaggle of neighborhood kids.ā New York Times Most Anticipated Books of 2026 A spellbinding exploration of masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants,Ā A Tender AgeĀ 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.
From the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novelist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence
Devastating in its emotional precision,Ā A Tender AgeĀ 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.
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From the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novelist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence 'Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?'Ā 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 āChang-rae Lee can do no wrong in my mind ā I devoured Leeās last novel,Ā My Year Abroad, and I canāt wait for this one.ā LitHub āLeeās latest novel is a tale of almosts: a family of working-class immigrants almost living the American dream; an 11-year-old boy, almost transitioning into adulthood and straddling the worlds of his doting Korean parents and a semi-feral gaggle of neighborhood kids.ā New York Times Most Anticipated Books of 2026 A spellbinding exploration of masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants,Ā A Tender AgeĀ 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.
From the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novelist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence
Devastating in its emotional precision,Ā A Tender AgeĀ 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.
