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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, GOODREADS, AND LITERARY HUB

"Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?"--The 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

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence.

A 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.

Devastating 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.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798217048441
  • ISBN-10: 9798217048441
  • Publisher: Riverhead Books
  • Publish Date: August 2026
  • Dimensions: 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.91 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.01 pounds
  • Page Count: 368

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