![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Sag Harbor is a kind of black ‘Brighton Beach memoirs’. Whitehead seems to be having the time of his life.” -The Boston Globe “Warm and funny, carefully observed, and beautifully written. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon! But maybe, just maybe, this summer might be one for the ages. Benji will be tested by contests big and small, by his misshapen haircut (which seems to have a will of its own), by the New Coke Tragedy, and by his secret Lite FM addiction. There will be complicated new handshakes to fumble through and state-of-the-art profanity to master. The summer of ’85 won’t be without its usual trials and tribulations, of course. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of Black professionals have built a world of their own. ![]() From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused with a sharp look at the intersections of race and class” ( The New York Times).īenji Cooper is one of the few Black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. ![]()
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