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“A Tender Age is a coming-of-age novel with Lee’s inimitable emotional nuance, impeccable language and flair.”
“JC: How difficult is it for a young boy of immigrant parents to find his way through a world in a second language, in a place that is unfamiliar to his parents?”
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“What sort of research was involved in writing these scenes?”
“The Surrendered won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.”
“_______________________________ A Tender Age by Chiang-rae Lee is available from Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.”
“To what extent do you think including Jeon-Gi , not close to being a teenager, in this cohort is an adult mistake that could haunt him?”
“That understanding for the narrator is one tinged with mourning for the boy who endured but also the suspect boy who was always there, even before all the unfortunate happenings.”
“Her reviews, interviews and cultural criticism have appeared in NPR, BBC Culture, the New York Times Book Review, the Guardian, Bookforum, Paris Review, the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times , among other publications.”
“There’s a visceral, gut-level clarity Jeon-Gi has that in certain situations doesn’t square with how he thinks things should be, which in a story can make for captivating episodes.”
“JC: Your narrator’s interior world is in many ways more vivid than the external world of his immigrant parents, his sister, the boys he encounters on the derelict playground, at his school.”
“JC: There are scenes of intense cruelty in this novel, especially those between rival boys.”
“JC: The prison tour is seen from an angle of innocence being ripped apart, as the inmates expose some of the most common sadistic elements of prison life, to encourage these teenage and pre-teen boys who are getting into trouble to take a different path and avoid prison.”
“A Tender Age author interview Chiang-rae Lee interviews Jane Ciabattari Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House Riverhead Books Jane Ciabattari Jane Ciabattari, author of the short story collection Stealing the Fire, is a former National Book Critics Circle president (currently on the Advisory Board ) and a member of the Writers Grotto and Page Street.”
“Lee has continued to turn out impressive novels while teaching creative writing at Hunter, Princeton, and, currently Stanford.”