Benji

Benji is a few months short of his sixteenth birthday the summer of 1985. Like every other summer of his life, Benji and his family go to Sag Harbor for the summer. Benji and his brother are normally left with their older sister, but this year their sister is away at college, so the boys are left alone during the week without supervision. This creates a situation in which all their friends hang at their house because of the lack of supervision. Benji has suddenly become someone of importance among his childhood friends even though he is something of a social pariah at school back in the city.

Benji wears braces on his teeth and has a fascination with both horror movies and Dungeons and Dragons, two things that have marked him as a nerd among his classmates. For this reason, Benji is something of a social pariah among...