Changes happen slowly family tensions gradually build up. Unlike most coming-of-age books, there’s no big goal, nothing leading up to a life-altering event. It’s the summer of 1985 and 15-year-old Benji is, as usual, at his family’s place on the eponymous Sag Harbor, a small village in the Hamptons populated during the season by upper-middle class, professional African-Americans. I’m definitely going to read more by him. It’s more like a 4.5 star book, but I’m rounding up because the writing is so good and the author captures this era so effectively. This was the perfect book to read in late summer, as well as a nice introduction** to the writing of Colson Whitehead.
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