{"product_id":"tender-age","title":"Tender Age","description":"'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'Chang-rae Lee can do no wrong in my mind - I devoured Lee's last novel,My Year Abroad, and I can't wait for this one.' LitHub\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novelist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence'Lee's 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.' New York Times Most Anticipated Books of 2026A spellbinding exploration of masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants,A Tender Agejoins 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDevastating in its emotional precision,A Tender Agecaptures 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":"Summit Books UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58451986055503,"sku":"9781398562950","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/tender-age","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}