## Review Date #note/sourcereview/book | #source/book📚/fiction ## What is the story The protagonist awakens to find his skin has turned dark with melanin. The process of turning dark is happening across town, first slowly, then impacting and changing nearly everyone. The book tenderly explores who we are, who we love, how we treat each other, how we deal with difference, what holds and rifts societies and how we change. Finally, the last person to be white is the protagonist's dying father. After he is put to rest the town recovers from the trauma of change and starts getting back to being a community. How do we tell who was white? Does it matter? What does that even mean? ## What else do I wonder about? Can any of us see people as the same? Should we try? ## Action This book makes me want to rewrite everything I've ever touched. ## When do I want to stumble across this? #on/identity | #on/community | #on/change ## Source: Hamid, M. (2022). _The last white man_ (Hardcover). Riverhead Books. ## References, Quotes, Ideas ```dataview table file.mtime.year + "-" + file.mtime.month + "-" + file.mtime.day as Modified from [[ ]] and !outgoing([[ ]]) sort file.mtime desc ```