# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Powell's Presents: Chang-rae Lee in Conversation With Willy Vlautin
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 19 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: From Pulitzer Prize finalist Chang-rae Lee — author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea — comes a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence.

A spellbinding exploration of American masculinity and family dynamics as seen through the confused eyes of a prepubescent child of immigrants, A Tender Age (Riverhead) joins the rich tradition of the American bildungsroman. The natural descendent of characters like Huckleberry Finn and Holden Caufield, Korean American Jeon-Gi is torn between competing ideas of himself. At home, his working-class parents dote on him. Outside, he is part of a roving pack of kids with dominion over a derelict baseball field, weedy parking lot, and rusty jungle gym. Getting into and out of trouble is all-consuming. But the summer he turns eleven, he becomes embroiled in a staggering series of events reverberating far beyond himself and his family.

Devastating in its emotional precision, A Tender Age captures a family and community in striking distance of the American dream, and a young person on the precipice of adult knowledge, looking at his own culpability and looking away — then thinking about it for the rest of his life.

Lee will be joined in conversation by Willy Vlautin, author of The Left and the Lucky.

Buy the book: https://www.powells.com/events/chang-rae-lee-9798217048441
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/portland/powells-presents-chang-rae-lee-in-conversation-with-willy-vlautin/200030562632836
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, kids
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 6

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Portland
- **state**: OR
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Powell's Books, Inc. (Powell's City of Books)
- **lat**: 45.52319
- **long**: -122.68142
- **full address**: Powell's Books, Inc. (Powell's City of Books), 1005 W Burnside ST,Portland,OR,United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Powell's Presents: Chang-rae Lee in Conversation With Willy Vlautin being held?
  - **A:** Powell's Presents: Chang-rae Lee in Conversation With Willy Vlautin takes place on Wed, 19 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 19 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Powell's Books, Inc. (Powell's City of Books), 1005 W Burnside ST,Portland,OR,United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Powell's Presents: Chang-rae Lee in Conversation With Willy Vlautin?
  - **A:** Powell's Presents: Chang-rae Lee in Conversation With Willy Vlautin is organized by Powell's Books, Inc..
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Powell's Presents: Chang-rae Lee in Conversation With Willy Vlautin is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Portland, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Powell's Presents: Chang-rae Lee in Conversation With Willy Vlautin sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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