Sag Harbor

Pages: 352
Published: 2009
Language: English

In 1985, Benji Cooper navigates the complexities of being one of the few Black students at an elite Manhattan prep school. His summers offer a different world in Sag Harbor, a unique African American community in the Hamptons, where he and his friends are left to their own devices. This summer, Benji hopes things will be different as he faces new social challenges, a questionable haircut, and the infamous New Coke Tragedy of '85, all while trying to find his place.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Funny Lighthearted Nostalgic

Coming of Age Fish Out of Water

Literary Fiction

Authors

Colson Whitehead

Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. His works include his 1999 debut The Intuitionist; The Underground Railroad (2016), for which he won the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and The Nickel Boys, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction again in 2020, making him one of only four writers ever to win the prize twice. He has also published two books of nonfiction. In 2002, he received a MacArthur Fello...