“You think you can die only once. What luck, if that’s true. I was eleven years old, and I thought I knew everything.” Chang-Rae Lee’s A Tender Age (Riverhead 2026) should have captured my attention a bit more than it did. I tend to love bildungsromans, and a novel about a Korean kid growing upContinue reading “A TENDER AGE – A Tender Age”
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Chang-rae Lee — ALOFT
Chang-rae Lee is a first generation Korean American. He graduated from Yale and teaches at Princeton. (ohhh fancy pants Ivy Leaguer.) His first novel, Native Speaker (1995) won the PEN/Hemingway award. The publication of A Gesture Life in 1999 seemed to secure his position as an Asian American author whose beautiful prose appropriately painted theContinue reading “Chang-rae Lee — ALOFT”
