![]() ![]() “I knew it was going to be in Sag Harbor, but I didn’t know that it was going to be Olivia’s journey. We all know the story of Bruce’s Beach and how it was taken away,” she says of the Black-owned beach in Manhattan Beach, California, that was seized by municipal leaders. there are only three that are really still vibrant. “I wanted to celebrate these historically Black beach communities. I thought Olivia did fine, but people wanted to know more about her story and her journey.”įor the new book, “Summer on Sag Harbor,” she pivoted from the Vineyard to Sag Harbor, a destination she’d long been eager to explore. “And over and over again, although everyone told me how relatable it was and how they saw themselves and how much they loved the book, many people said, ‘What about Olivia? Olivia got the short end of the stick,’” she says of her character. ![]()
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