It's 1985, and black teenager Benji Cooper is residing in two different worlds. During the school year, he attends a posh, nearly pure white Manhattan prep school, keeping busy with adolescent activities but remaining essentially an outsider. Each summer, he vacations in Long Island's Sag Harbor, surrounded by the sons and daughters of African-American professionals who have carved out a place for themselves. The contrast between this preserve and his ill-fitting academic life leave him searching for some synthesis, or at least an escape from limbo. A sensitive coming-of-age novel by the author of The Intuitionist and Apex Hides the Hurt.