The summer over which the novel takes place, Benji and his brother Reggie are at that crucial stage of transition, where the 'who' you are begins flirting with the more permanent 'who' you will become. The book is, in its way, an attempt to come to terms with just that, 'who we were,' one essential tactic used to answer that knotty question, 'Who am I?' A paradox to the outside, but it never occurred to us that there was anything strange about it. He says, 'According to the world, we were the definition of paradox: black boys with beach houses. His family owns a beach house in Sag Harbor, N.Y., where the book is set. Here we find Benji, a black kid from New York City, who attends a fancy private high school, 15 years old in the summer of 1985.

Where the first three tackled society and race with metaphors as complex, brilliant and controlling as a three-handed puppeteer, 'Sag Harbor' works within a smaller realm, one more immediately recognizable as our own. OL21011089W Page_number_confidence 93.15 Pages 294 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220308075832 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 587 Scandate 20220228022534 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780099531883 Tts_version 4.Colson Whitehead's fourth novel, 'Sag Harbor,' doesn't have any of the sweeping structural apparatuses that characterized his previous books, none of the markers that, in the past, could be said to bear the 'Colson Whitehead' stamp of approval.īut though on the surface it appears to be less so, 'Sag Harbor' in no way abandons the ambition of those previous novels.

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Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead