A tender age a novel

"An exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants. 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 d...

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Main Author: Lee, Chang-rae (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Riverhead Books, 2026.
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Summary:"An exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:pages ; cm
ISBN:9798217048441
Author Notes:Chang-rae Lee is the author of six other novels, including Native Speaker , winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction, and The Surrendered , winner of the Dayton Peace Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A 2021 winner of the Award of Merit for the Novel from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Chang-rae Lee teaches writing at Stanford University.