A Tender Age

Praise for Chang-rae Lee

‘A brilliant novel about a son of Korean immigrants who contends with rac­ism and various distresses incurred in growing up in the ’70s U.S… Coming-of-age stories can be mawkish, but not Lee’s novel… nuanced and dramatically rich, [it presents] a frighteningly accurate depic­tion of adolescence that offers no easy answers… Another powerful work… from one of America’s best authors’ Boston Globe starred review

‘I have no choice but to ask: Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?’ Los Angeles Times

‘Nothing is rushed; nothing is overlooked… Lee understands that in art and in stories what is perhaps most valuable is not what can be explained but what can be felt.’ Boston Globe

‘The prose Chang-rae Lee writes is elliptical, riddling, poetic…beautifully made.’ New Yorker

‘[Chang-rae Lee] explores the fundamental human desires to be seen and to love.’ Washington Post

‘Lee’s writing style, as usual, is alive with wit and satiric social commentary… boisterous and fun.’ US National Public Radio

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.

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