Sag Harbor

Name: Sag Harbor
Author: Colson Whitehead
ISBN: 9781446477656

Colson Whitehead

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Sag Harbor

Colson Whitehead

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#3097 of 8,085 books · #253 in Young Adult

Shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (2010).

From the author of The Underground Railroad, Benji spends most of the year as one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, going to roller disco bar mitzvahs, desperately trying to find his place in the social hierarchy. Then he spends his summers in the African-American community of Sag Harbor on Long Island, and is just as confused. He's way behind on the latest handshakes, baffled by new slang, and his attempts to be cool and meet girls are constantly thwarted by his extremely awkward inner geek, braces and a badly cut Afro. It's the summer of 1985 and Benji is determined that this is the summer when things will change and he'll fit in. For starters, he'll be reinvented as 'Ben'. When that doesn't catch on, it's another summer of the perpetual mortification that is teenage existence.

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