![]() ![]() This is one of the moments in "Sag Harbor" when we feel its supremely gifted and elusive author showing his face through the deadpan self-mockery and digressive anecdotes of Benji's personality. It was a bad name because it was incomplete - both parts were true, the bright and the dark, the one we could see and the other one we couldn't." "Its true life was invisible to us but we called it firefly after its fractions. ![]() "Such a strange little guy." The firefly gets its name from "people time, when in fact most of its business went on when people couldn't see it," Benji reflects. "A black bug secret in the night," he tells himself. ![]() ![]() Millions of those living symbols of ephemerality are glimpsed by millions of kids across every American summer, but this one gets Benji thinking. One summer night in 1985, near the beach in the Long Island resort town that gives Colson Whitehead's "Sag Harbor" its title, Benji, the novel's awkward, African-American teenage hero, sees a firefly. ![]()
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