This summer, we here at the Bookfinds team, will pick out some beach books that don’t make you feel you had to leave your brain behind.
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead
Whitehead is a brilliant young writer, who has written about the myth of John Henry, warring elevator inspectors and a nomenclature artist who is most known for naming a product that has different skin color band aids.
His new novel is more autobiographical novel about
15 year old Benji Cooper who is black boy who goes to a white prep school in Manhattan but summers in a black enclave in Sag Harbor in the Hamptons.
This is a fun book that revels in the small details of growing up in the 1980s like getting your braces off, New Coke and the Cosby Show. Benji is confused about his racial identity because he hangs out with rich white kids most of the time.
It’s a great read.
