Read much of the book on the plane home:

How little you can fathom the consequence of a time. Inside the moment, you do what you can, you do what you must, persisting in your own unsung way, and whether you’ve lived a single decade or handfuls more you can practically believe that no other grave ordeals will come to pass.

Lee, Chang-rae. A Tender Age. Riverhead Books, 2026.