{"product_id":"a-tender-age","title":"Tender Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDevastating 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?”—The Los Angeles Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself.\" —Jhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Chang-rae Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePage Count:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368pp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5.75 x 8.5 x 1.25\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes:\u003c\/strong\u003e hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/strong\u003eAugust 11, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 979-8217048441\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49129477832960,"sku":"9798217048441","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0053\/3902\/files\/tenderagehc.jpg?v=1786054542","url":"https:\/\/atomicbooks.com\/products\/a-tender-age","provider":"Atomic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}