MixedPittsburgh Post-Gazette\"Evoking a particular time and place, Sag Harbor, like [\'American Graffiti\'], captures a slice of teenage life during one carefree summer. Whitehead nails the lingo and the soundtrack of the period just right ... Making only a passing reference to his characters\' future, Whitehead paints a remarkable portrait of a moment in time when one group of young black teens teetered between childhood and manhood on the edge of the Hamptons ... But this glimpse into the future awaiting these boys of summer is maddeningly vague ... Does it matter? I think it does. Lumping the fates of all these kids together, as if their lives and those summers in Sag Harbor were experienced by a group rather than by individuals, seems an idea more worthy of a 15-year-old than his older, wiser self.\
