Sag Harbor - Tapa blanda

"He weaves a spell that is by turns enchanting, mood-shifting, and side-splitting, sharing the sweet, sad secrets of his mixed-up, mid-'80s adolescence" (Elle)

"Intimate and autobiographical story...the novel can't help but hold your attention" (Dazed and Confused)

"The Coolest Writer in America - He's widely admired, ever smooth, a master of writing important books" (Esquire)

"Whitehead is a smart guy and a dazzling talent ... he has a David Foster Wallace-esque knack for punctuating meticulously figurative constructions with deadpan slacker wit" (Los Angeles Times)

"A love letter not only to the Long Island town and African-American summer enclave but to '80s culture and The Cosby Show; to hip-hop and upper-middle-class black culture" (Dallas Morning News)

It's 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 much of the year going to roller disco bar mitzvahs and trying desperately to find a social group that will accept him.
But every summer, Benji and his brother Reggie escape to Sag Harbor on Long Island, where a small community of African-American professionals have built a world of their 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 one step behind on every new dance, and his attempts to meet a girl are undermined by his own awkwardness, not to mention his braces and his father-cut Afro.
Sag Harbor is a warm and funny novel about the perpetual mortification of teenage existence from one of the most acclaimed writers in the English language.