![]() ![]() ![]() Though we get glimpses of Benji’s life in prep school, it seems far away and irrelevant (the way school often feels to a kid on summer break.) You see, this isn’t about Benji’s life at school it takes place in an all-black beach community in the Hamptons where Benji’s family spends summers. Whereas the reader of PREP inhabits the mind of a girl unable to “be herself” in a hostile adolescent environment, SAG HARBOR takes place in a situation where Benji feels most himself. However, PREP’s protagonist, Lee Fiora, is a Midwestern-Caucasion girl on scholarship in a New England boarding school, while SAG HARBOR’s Benji Cooper is an African-American boy who attends a mostly white prep school near his Manhattan home. Interestingly, the narrators of both novels are now in their adulthood, looking back at themselves as teenagers. It’s fun to compare Colson Whitehead’s SAG HARBOR to another recent novelĪbout the life of a teenaged preppie, specifically PREP by Curtis Sittenfeld. ![]()
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