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One of the most acclaimed fiction writers at work today, Colson Whitehead makes this welcome Seattle and Elliott Bay return to read from his most recent novel, Sag Harbor (newly in paper, Anchor). First published a year ago to much praise, and a finalist for this year's PEN/Faulkner Award, Sag Harbor is several things, among them evidence that Colson Whitehead challenges himself, even as he engages and entertains readers ("Another surprise from an author who never writes the same novel twice." - Kirkus Reviews). "In what Whitehead describes as his 'Autobiographical Fourth Novel' (as opposed to the more usual autobiographical first novel), the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist John Henry Days explores the in-between space of adolescence through one boy's summer in a predominantly black Long Island neighborhood ... For Benji, each three-month stay at Sag is a chance to catch up with friends he doesn't see the rest of the year, and to escape the social awkwardness that comes with a bad afro, reading Fangoria, and being the rare African-American student at an exclusive Manhattan prep school ... Benji's funny and touching story progresses leisurely toward Labor Day, but his reflections on what's gone before provide a roadmap to what comes later ..." - Publishers Weekly. "Whitehead's delicious language and sarcastic, clever voice fit this teenager who's slowly constructing himself ... It's an inner monologue, a collection of stories about a classic teenage summer where there's some cool stuff and some tedium and Benji grows in minute ways he can't yet see." - Touré. Colson Whitehead's other books are The Intuitionist, John Henry Days, Apex Hides the Hurt, and The Colossus of New York. Among his other honors, he's received a Whiting Writers' Award and a MacArthur Fellowship. This night should be fun.
