
There will be complicated new handshakes to fumble through and state-of-the-art profanity to master.
The summer of ’85 won’t be without its usual trials and tribulations, of course.
But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of Black professionals have built a world of their own.
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused with a sharp look at the intersections of race and class” ( The New York Times).īenji Cooper is one of the few Black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan.