There's no shortage of worthwhile novels to pack for your next trip to the beach, be it a fast-paced thriller or a more uplifting romantic novel.
But even then, The New Yorker feels confident they might very well have found the ultimate to book to take with you on a summer beach trip, as detailed in a new story from the iconic literary magazine.
Speaking about some of their favorite books to read for the summer, The New Yorker's reporters specifically pointed to award-winning author Colson Whitehead's 2009 novel Sag Harbor as one of their favorite books to flip through for the season.
"I spent a weekend last summer in front of my air-conditioner reading Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead, a coming-of-age story set in 1985," a reporter for the outlet shared. "That might be the perfect summer-in-New-York novel."
True to the magazine's description, Sag Harbor follows a Black teenager who spends the summer of 1985 in Sag Harbor, New York: a predominantly Black neighborhood in the mostly white-populated community of Long Island.
Touching upon themes of race, class, gentrification and differing cultures, Sag Harbor served as one of the earliest breakout successes for Whitehead, who would go on to numerous awards within the literary world in the decades to come.
Eight years later, Whitehead would win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad, as well as the National Book Award for Fiction for that same novel. In 2020, he won his second Pulitzer for his novel The Nickel Boys, becoming one of only four writers to ever win the prize twice.
In more recents year, the best-selling author has remained hard at work on his equally well-loved Harlem Trilogy, spanning 2021's Harlem Shuffle and continuing with 2023's Crook Manifesto. He is set to formally conclude the trilogy with Cool Machine on July 21 of this year.
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