"Benji 'n' Reggie, Benji 'n' Reggie," people say in a “singsong way” (Whitehead 2). For much of their lives, the Sag Harbor gang thought of Benji and Reggie Cooper as not two people, but rather “the twins” (even separated by ten months). They’re referred to together, and treated as two parts of one item. I think that part of Sag Harbor tells the story of how Benji decides to differentiate himself and become independent. Colson Whitehead's Sag Harbor opens with a summer: the kind that feels infinite while in youth, yet once you blink it’s over. By the summer the novel takes place, puberty has struck both of the siblings, sending Benji "up and airborne, tall and skinny, a knock-kneed little reed, while Reggie, always chubby in the cheeks and arms, bulged out into something round and pinch-able."(Whitehead 4) My brother and I, also nine months apart, looked very similar for quite a while. And similarly, as we got older, those physical similarities t...