Chang-Rae Lee on whether his new novel 'A Tender Age' is autobiographical
2026-08-27 · 11 min · 7 entities
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Chang-Rae Lee’s new novel is filled with some of his own memories, like worrying about being picked last for dodgeball and sizing up his fellow Asian American classmates to determine who was most “foreign.” Lee says, unlike some of his other novels, these autobiographical elements populate A Tender Age . In today’s episode, the author speaks with Here & Now ’s Scott Tong about growing up Korean American in suburban New York in the 1970s, attending church camp in the Hudson Valley and the fragility of being a pre-teen.
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