![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Igoni Barrett’s Blackass (2015), the epigraph of which cites Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” to make the debt explicit. These are the opening beats of Mohsin Hamid’s latest novel, The Last White Man: “One morning Anders, a white man, woke up to find he had turned a deep and undeniable brown.” These are also the opening beats-albeit about a black man who wakes up white-of A. The man who looks back at him is a stranger. He looks at his hand, which he knows like … well, like the back of his hand. He looks around, seeking his bearings as he tries to come to terms with what has happened to him overnight, perhaps after uneasy dreams. ![]()
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