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Acclaimed author Chang-rae Lee's new novel, A Tender Age , is a moving coming-of-age story

PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at the book, out next year

“For me it’s a wistful, haunting image of the reprieve that is youth, and one that swells the heart," the author says of the book's cover

Chang-rae Lee crafts a memorable bildungsroman in his latest book.

PEOPLE has an exclusive look at the author’s new novel A Tender Age , out next summer from Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.

Jeon-Gi, the novel’s protagonist, is the young child of Korean immigrants. He consistently balances two worlds: that of his working class-parents at home and the one he shares with his friends outside.

But once Jeon-Gi turns 11, he becomes entwined in a series of events t

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