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The warm, funny and highly original new novel from one of the most celebrated writers in America
The year is 1985.Benji is one of the only school in Manhattan.Er spends its waterfalls black students at an elite Prep and bar winters going after roller disco each play too much dungeons and dragons, and try to catch glimpses of nudity on late night cable TV. After a tragic accident on his first day of high school - if Benji revealed sealed his deep passion for horror film his social Doom is magazine Fangoria - for the next four years.
But every summer, Benji escapes the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals world of their own haben.Da built your parents only on weekends come, he and his friends to your own devices for three splendid months are left.And although he is just so confused about this all black refuge as the white world he is negotiating the rest of the year, he thinks that maybe this summer things will be different.If all scheduled runs.
It is trials and tribulations, natürlich.Wird it complicated new handshakes to fumble through and State-of-the-art profanity to meistern.Er will be tested through contests, large and small, from his misshapen haircut (which seems a will have their own), through the new coke tragedy of ' 85, and his secret Lite FM sucht.Aber maybe with a little luck, things are different this summer.
In this deeply affectionate and sharply funny coming-of-age novel, Whitehead - with the eternal mortification of teens existence and desperate search after reinventing - smooth probes of the elusive nature of identity, both personal and communal.
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