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Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead

Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead. New York: Anchor Books, 2009.  Review by Sharon Harrigan

Sag Harbor is a novel, but it is told as eight episodes and sometimes reads like a series of personal essays. It is not a page-turner, but I didn’t expect it to be. I took it on its own terms: nostalgic rhapsodies on a slow-moving, lazy summer in the Hamptons.

The Washington Post called the book “a kind of black Brighton Beach Memoirs,” but that makes it seem slighter than it is. Sag Harbor is about race relations, as much as Whitehead’s celebrated The Intuitionist is. The topic is the black middle class, which is not written about often enough and which is more timely and relevant than ever, as we move into a new Obama-era world of opportunity.

Besides its intriguing topic—a black boy with a beach house—what sets this book apart is style. Whitehead could make an instruction manual pop off the page. Whitehead’s humor is a blend of snarky adolescent sarcasm and adult retrospective knowingness. He describes something as mundane as dealing with pesky insects this way: “The Horsefly Shuffle was the one dance I could do, no hassle: bat at thighs and calves, skitter a few feet in a serpentine style, repeat.”

Sometimes the humor is as subtle as adolescent word choice, such as: “There were fewer boats then to zit the surface of the bay.” The humor also comes from mixing street language with artful words or from stand-up comic schtick: “Paging Doc Puberty, arms scrubbed, smocked to the hilt, smacking the nurses on the ass, and well-versed in all the latest techniques.”

Some of the humor is sharp analogies (“Like a knife and fork, he appeared around dinnertime”) and understatement (“Good looking girlfriends, from all accounts, with all their teeth and everything.”) On every page of this 329-page book are examples I could pluck. The chapter titles are also hilarious, including: “Notions of Roller-Rink Infinity,” “The Heyday of Dag,” and “If I Could Pay You Less, I Would.” It is a witty, witty book.

Part of what makes Whitehead’s tone jump off the page is his promiscuous switching from first person singular, to first person plural, to second person. These switches give the book the restless, immediate tone of speech.

It would probably come to no surprise to any reader that Whitehead used to be a television critic for The Village Voice. His fluency with pop culture references in the 1980s is encyclopedic. His protagonist, Benji, rhapsodizes for pages about Campbell’s Homestyle Chicken Soup with Egg Noodles (“the Cadillac of soups”), Swanson frozen food (“meal and plate in one slim rectangle—this was American ingenuity at its best and most sustaining”), ice cream toppings (“let us cue the orchestra as we pan lovingly, lingeringly, over the delights in the tiny containers”), the magical qualities of Fila sneakers, and Run DMC versus Ice Cube. “The Cosby Show” versus “Good Times.”  Although Benji’s parents are Ivy-educated and the kids go to fancy Upper East Side prep schools, their TV habits mimic those of the working class people I grew up with.

Being a fly on the wall in such a racially charged environment is fascinating. On the divide between the black and white Hamptons, we get: “Even the animals changed, so extreme the border between Sag Harbor and East Hampton.” The social stratum within the black culture is interesting, too: “We had die-hard bourgies, we had first-generation college strivers, fake WASPs, the odd mellowing Militant.”

Benji and his family, as black people trying to assimilate in a white culture, feel like they are always on display, that they have to be extra cautious not to break any rules or be judged by any stereotype. “You  didn’t, for example, walk down Main Street with a watermelon under your arm,” Benji says. His parents are lenient by this generation’s helicopter-parenting standards (the 14- and 15-year-old boys are left unsupervised through the week, and the parents come to the beach house only on weekends, and the inevitable sink full of maggoty dishes and diet of day-long ice cream ensue), but Benji is grounded for a week for going to school with wrinkled khaki-uniform pants and his brother Reggie earns the nickname Shithead for a whole year when he gets a C minus on his report card. These are crimes of class, which their father will not tolerate.

Benji’s mother, who is a corporate lawyer, comes from a middle class family, and she inherits the beach house from her parents. His father, who is a doctor, is a self-made man and makes his children aware of how tenuous their recent status is.

The book is not only gorgeous and funny, it is poignant. At the beginning, I was waiting for Whitehead to go deeper into the dark places of family myth and secrets, and ultimately, he does. More than half-way through the book, we start to get the parents as characters. It’s the father who provides the threat of violence, which makes the book weightier than a Brighton Beach Memoir. The chapter “To Prevent Flare-Ups”—cleverly referring both to the father’s obsession with grilling and uncontrollable temper—starts “We were a Cosby family, good on paper. . . Did we squirm? Oh so quietly.”

The rest of the chapter reveals the sentence’s corollary: they were not how they appeared. There is a hint at the violence in Benji’s parents’ relationship when he accidentally finds a note his mother wrote cataloging his father’s offenses, such as yelling at her in front of her friends and drinking too much every day. Then we witness his father publicly humiliating his mother while she is chatting with her girlfriends, making her abruptly leave and go to the store to fix her mistake of buying the wrong kind of disposable plates. The conclusion of that scene is one of the darkest and most moving passages of the book.

Another emotional scene–the excerpted in The New Yorker before the book was published–comes at the end of the chapter about the BB gun fight in which no one really gets hurt. “I’d like to say, all these years later, now that one of us is dead and another paralyzed from the waist down from actual bullets—drug-related, as the papers put it—that the game wasn’t so innocent after all.” He goes on to make a larger point about weapons: “As time went on, we learned to arm ourselves in our different ways. Some of us with real guns, some of us with more ephemeral weapons, an idea or improbable plan.” This is a technique Whitehead does so efficiently and lightly—taking an object or a piece of a story and letting it expand into something abstract and thought-provoking.

Whitehead chose to put this book in the past tense and frame it with the perspective of an adult looking back. The adult perspective gives the book more depth and allows for some epiphanies arrived at after decades, since the teenage Benji doesn’t change much in the course of the novel. So little change occurs that the narrator feels the need to catalog it on the last page.

Someday I hope to read a perfect Whitehead book, melding both his usual breathtaking style with the addition of a page-turning plot. For now, though, it is enough to appreciate the joy ride and virtuosity of his tone, rhythm, humor, playfulness, musicality (rap and jazz come to mind), and wit.
In sum, What I Learned from the summer at Sag Harbor:

1. Read those jazzy, long-winded, rule-breaking, profane and delicious sentences over and over again to get their groove into my head so I can give myself license to also let it rip.

2. Experiment with the surprise of street language and serious-sounding (even stuffy) literary language in the same sentence.

3. It’s OK, if you’re writing in a colloquial first person, to shift to plural, second, and imperative once in a while.

4. Vary sentence length—think solos then background rhythm.

5. Start out with a premise that has a twist. But beware of gimmicks.

6. Don’t be afraid to have a sometime villain and some deep family drama, especially if it’s interspersed with humor.

7. If you’ve already won a MacArthur Fellowship and a Whiting Writers’ Award, you can afford to bypass the traditional plot arc of big transformation required of a coming of age novel. If you’re not, you better stick to it.

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