Sag Harbor

It's 1985. Benji, the Son of a Lawyer and a Doctor, is One of the Only Black Kids at an Elite Prep School in Manhattan. He Spends Much of the Year Going to Roller Disco Bar Mitzvahs and Trying Desperately to Find a Social Group That Will Accept Him. but Every Summer, Benji and His Brother Reggie Escape to Sag Harbor on Long Island, Where a Small Community of African-American Professionals Have Built a World of Their Own. Except Benji is Just As Confused About This All-Black Refuge As He is About the White World He Negotiates During the School Year. He's One Step Behind on Every New Dance, and His Attempts to Meet a Girl Are Undermined by His Own Awkwardness, Not to Mention His Braces and His Father-Cut Afro. Sag Harbor is a Warm and Funny Novel About the Perpetual Mortification of Teenage Existence From One of the Most Acclaimed Writers in the English Language.