Fairfax Library Tuesday Morning Book Club – The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid

* Tuesday, February 20, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

The Tuesday Morning Book Club will meet in-person every other month to discuss a new book. Everyone is welcome to attend whether or not you have read the selected book for that meeting.  This is a drop-in event and February 20th is our first meeting.

We will begin our meetings with a lively “Recommended Reads You May Have Overlooked” book talk highlighting two books that you might enjoy, offered by Fairfax Storyteller Neshama Franklin.

On February 20th the Book Club will discuss The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid:
From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change. One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed.

Overnight, Anders’s skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface.

Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them. Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded overturning of the established order that must be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders’s father and Oona’s mother, a sense of profound loss and unease wars with profound love.

As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance at a kind of rebirth–an opportunity to see ourselves, face to face, anew. In Mohsin Hamid’s “lyrical and urgent” prose (O Magazine),

The Last White Man uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence it allows, a migration of consciousness powerfully enacted by the novel itself.

Available Formats: Print Book, Large Print Book, and Downloadable Audiobook

Tuesday Book Club is sponsored by the Friends of the Fairfax Library.  For more information contact the Fairfax Library: 415-453-8151