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# Sag Harbor

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Review: Great individual story for all the 80's babies out there - I loved this story for is description of the life of one child and his individual "black" experience. This book personifies the duality of being black and being middle or upper middle class. This portrays the constant struggle that occurs when having to choose between being who you are, and becoming (or fighting) what the world wants you to become. this book is a tale of dichotomy, assimilation, repression, self-awareness, and growth. A good read if you are a child a child of the 80's, and can relate to the jargon.
Review: Taking me back to childhood - Do you have that special place from your childhood? The one that will always be your first love? For Colson Whitehead, in his "autobiographical" novel Sag Harbor, this place is his family's beach house on Long Island. Sag Harbor covers the teenage summers of Benji ("Call me Ben") as he navigates those painful years of both discovering and inventing who you are, where a single failure can allow others to define who you are without your permission. In the book, Whitehead creates a sympathetic character who is real, who we can associate with, who we can project ourselves onto. And that is his success. By the end of the book, we are thinking not of Sag Harbor but of our own childhood, of our own "beach house" where we escaped our lives and could be who we wanted to be, but ended up being even more of ourselves. Structurally, Sag Harbor is not driven by plot. Although it follows the events of a summer, this is more a device for us to learn about Benji, for Whitehead to show the arc of self-discovery through the events. This can - at times - slow down the novel. But the author's eloquently sparse style keeps it from becoming a burden. He has gathered anecdotes and arranged them in an order that lets us see the progression without showing us the end. A good book.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #141,887 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #814 in Fiction Satire #1,167 in Coming of Age Fiction (Books) #5,110 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (1,104) |
| Dimensions  | 5.21 x 0.76 x 8 inches |
| Edition  | 1st |
| ISBN-10  | 0307455165 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0307455161 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 352 pages |
| Publication date  | June 15, 2010 |
| Publisher  | Vintage |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great individual story for all the 80's babies out there
*by N***. on May 14, 2013*

I loved this story for is description of the life of one child and his individual "black" experience. This book personifies the duality of being black and being middle or upper middle class. This portrays the constant struggle that occurs when having to choose between being who you are, and becoming (or fighting) what the world wants you to become. this book is a tale of dichotomy, assimilation, repression, self-awareness, and growth. A good read if you are a child a child of the 80's, and can relate to the jargon.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Taking me back to childhood
*by W***N on June 23, 2009*

Do you have that special place from your childhood? The one that will always be your first love? For Colson Whitehead, in his "autobiographical" novel Sag Harbor, this place is his family's beach house on Long Island. Sag Harbor covers the teenage summers of Benji ("Call me Ben") as he navigates those painful years of both discovering and inventing who you are, where a single failure can allow others to define who you are without your permission. In the book, Whitehead creates a sympathetic character who is real, who we can associate with, who we can project ourselves onto. And that is his success. By the end of the book, we are thinking not of Sag Harbor but of our own childhood, of our own "beach house" where we escaped our lives and could be who we wanted to be, but ended up being even more of ourselves. Structurally, Sag Harbor is not driven by plot. Although it follows the events of a summer, this is more a device for us to learn about Benji, for Whitehead to show the arc of self-discovery through the events. This can - at times - slow down the novel. But the author's eloquently sparse style keeps it from becoming a burden. He has gathered anecdotes and arranged them in an order that lets us see the progression without showing us the end. A good book.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Funny but not entirely engaging
*by V***E on May 11, 2011*

I had a hard time figuring out what to rate this book. I agree with the reviewers that were disappointed with it's lack of plot, tension, conflict, or any similar driving force. There is one scene where the father is bbq'ing on the beach and it feels like it is building to something, but I don't think it ever did, other than the fact that the chicken didn't turn out too well that day?? The narrative meanders along and at times the descriptions are so long that it feels indulgent and calling out for an editor. This is most apparent in (but unfortunately not limited to) the scene where the main character describes all the types of people that come into the ice cream shop where he works; it goes on for many pages (I read it on kindle so not I am not sure how many, just too many) and it works for a few paragraphs before it just gets annoying. I also found some parts of the book rather confusing. It would jump ahead to the "present time" and say how things worked out or talk about subsequent or previous summers and then, I guess, go back to the particular summer that was the focus of the book. But I wasn't always sure about this, what age the Benji character was, what the year was, and where all the stories fit in relation to each other. Still, I found many of the stories to be very funny. I would remember them later and have my husband read particular passages because I thought he would also find them funny. Overall, I liked the characters and the stories and the writing, but it bored me in between these funny stories. It wasn't the kind of book I couldn't put down or wanted to keep reading after my subway ride was over, walking down the street with it, trying not to get run over, like I have with other books. I actually read it during a long "vacation" weekend and even with little else to do I didn't always pick it up when I could. So in the end, I suppose three stars is about right. Maybe 3.5 if I had the option - because I do think it's well-written and the characters are mostly likeable and there are some very funny bits and some relateable pieces. I don't consider the days I spent reading this book to be a waste of time, but having read many good things about this book, I expected more.

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