Questioning a radical change
THE OPENING OF MOHSIN HAMID’S THE LAST White Man, arriving Aug. 2, invokes Franz Kafka’s Gregor Samsa—but with a metamorphosis fitting for the racially charged era in which we live. “One morning,” Hamid writes, “Anders, a white man, woke up to find he had turned a deep and undeniable brown.”
At first Anders’ surreal transformation upends his world; he
