{"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 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] knockout... Lee reinvents himself with each book.\" \u003ci\u003e--The Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48652797051054,"sku":"9798217048441","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48905423782062,"sku":"9798217349265","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/4417\/1694\/files\/imageloader_322f4863-2136-4e75-a066-93a00208f9b4.jpg?v=1785331314","url":"https:\/\/ofmooseandmindbookshop.com\/products\/a-tender-age","provider":"Of Moose and Mind Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}