It is precisely this lack of authority and oversight-parental or otherwise-which provides the opportunity for Benji to make contact with other young black teens with affluent parents who own beach houses. The year is 1985 and far from being a ghetto thug playing the fish out of water game or trying the whole six degrees of separation con, the novel’s protagonist Benji fits in quite well with these other privileged kids from well-to-do families for who barely seeing their kids all summer-if at all-is in no way considered out of ordinary. The story is a semi-autobiographical account of an African-America teen from New York spending the summer in the titular beach community with his all-white friends from the prep school he attends back home. Sag Harbor is the fourth novel by highly-regarded writer Colson Whitehead and represents something of a departure from his previous works in both tone, style and subject matter. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.
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