false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255912709m/4428988.jpg 4428988 6 <p>The time is 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 his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs and trying desperately to find a social group that will accept him. <br><br>But every summer, Benji and his brother, Reggie, escape to the East End of Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals has built a world of its 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 hopelessly one step behind on every new dance, and his fantasies of hooking up are no match for his own awkwardness, not to mention his braces, his horrid father-cut Afro, or his secret Lite FM addiction. <br><br>In this deeply affectionate and fiercely funny coming-of-age novel, Colson Whitehead&#8212;using the perpetual mortification of teenage existence and the desperate quest for reinvention&#8212;beautifully explores racial and class identity, illustrating the complex rhythms of the adult world.</p> 4477156 28 4 2009 Sag Harbor: A Novel total:639|5:90|4:235|3:206|2:75|1:33| 639 2191 1610 218 4 9 false false Sat Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Sep 30 16:18:30 -0700 2008 Sun Mar 08 06:43:49 -0700 2009 pissing up James Wood's leg, which whets the appetite.

Finished. I think I fell in love with Colson Whitehead before I even cracked a spine, just looking at that moniker on the...more...]]> 4 3 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 19:59:36 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 09:31:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 06:02:03 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 08:02:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 18:41:07 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 18:41:44 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 16:52:10 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 17:02:12 -0700 2009 Intuitionist. However a straight piece of fiction by Whitehead seemed just the ticket.

And at first I was way down with this book. Loved the early-80s hip-hop nosta...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 11:09:26 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 11:50:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 18:39:31 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 18:50:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 07:39:25 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 07:59:52 -0700 2009 Critics have been waiting to get truly excited about a Colson Whitehead novel. Most have decided that Sag Harbor is the oneóeven though it operates on a smaller scale. The Dallas Morning News described the novel as "a love letter not only to the Long Island town and African-American summer enc...

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The year is 1985, more than two ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri May 01 16:36:28 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 16:37:12 -0700 2009 Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead is the semi-autobiographical story of a young boy named Benji and his summers spent in the New York summer town of Sag Harbor. Benji is a young African American struggling to fit into a world that he straddles varied sides of. As an African American, he doesn’t fit...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 09:35:41 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 04:26:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Aug 03 21:24:45 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 21:25:28 -0700 2009
I’m sorry for doubting you. I was going to write this apology/review in a series of 140 character paragraphs (ala tweet) but that’s too much of a pain in the ass and would do your beautiful book, Sag Harbor, a great disservice. It deserves better.

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