{"product_id":"a-tender-age-tpb","title":"A Tender Age | TPB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novelist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA spellbinding exploration of 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 coming-of-age novel. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?' \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the fabric of the Great American Novel itself.'\u003cb\u003e Jhumpa Lahiri\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46112146686143,"sku":"9781398562950","price":34.64,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/files\/94446-a8b93441414e4a93bb932ab9e0c46910dd899c9247ae0efd4036e2fbb70ac09d.jpg?v=1788083889","url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/products\/a-tender-age-tpb","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}