![]() ![]() But maybe, with a little luck, things will turn out differently this summer. He will be tested by contests big and small, by his misshapen haircut (which seems to have a will of its own), by the New Coke Tragedy of ’85, and by his secret Lite FM addiction. ![]() There will be complicated new handshakes to fumble through, and state-of-the-art profanity to master. There will be trials and tribulations, of course. And although he’s just as confused about this all-black refuge as he is about the white world he negotiates the rest of the year, he thinks that maybe this summer things will be different. ![]() Because their parents come out only on weekends, he and his friends are left to their own devices for three glorious months. After a tragic mishap on his first day of high school-when Benji reveals his deep enthusiasm for the horror movie magazine Fangoria-his social doom is sealed for the next four years.īut every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals have built a world of their own. ![]() He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs, playing too much Dungeons and Dragons, and trying to catch glimpses of nudity on late-night cable TV. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. ![]()
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