{"product_id":"a-tender-age","title":"A Tender Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“A tour de force… One of contemporary American literature’s major chroniclers of manhood.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"[A] knockout... Lee reinvents himself with each book.\" \u003ci\u003e—The Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Moving… a classic bildungsroman.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\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\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":"Hardback","offer_id":52371806683352,"sku":"9798217048441","price":41.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2770\/5320\/files\/cover-9798217048441.jpg?v=1788542947","url":"https:\/\/destiil.com\/products\/a-tender-age","provider":"De Stiil Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}