When that doesn't catch on, it's another summer of the perpetual mortification that is teenage existence. For starters, he'll be reinvented as 'Ben'. Sag Harbor chronicles the experiences of Benji Cooper, an anxious, easily embarrassed 15-year-old Black male struggling to fit in. It's the summer of 1985 and Benji is determined that this is the summer when things will change and he'll fit in. Sag Harbor takes place in Sag Harbor, a small village in the exclusive Hamptons on the east end of New. 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. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of Black professionals have built a world of. Sag Harbor is a 2009 novel by author Colson Whitehead. Then he spends his summers in the African-American community of Sag Harbor on Long Island, and is just as confused. From the author of the Man Booker longlisted 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. When that doesn't catch on, it's another summer of the perpetual mortification that is teenage existence. There is such a rich history of Black folks occupying coastal resort spaces in the United States, Sunny Hostinacclaimed journalist, author, senior legal correspondent and analyst for ABC News. For starters, he'll be reinvented as 'Ben'.

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