The Last White Man…book review

by Richard Subber | Dec 21, 2024 | Book reviews, Books

strange wake-up…

Book review:

The Last White Man

by Mohsin Hamid

New York: Riverhead Books, 2022

180 pages

Hamid’s central idea is interesting: white people wake up and discover that they are brown people. Think about it. How many differences are more than skin deep?

As I started to read The Last White Man, I started to think of Coleridge talking about “the best words” and “the best words in the best order.” I started to think about other books I’ve read about beautiful words. I realized that this book isn’t full of them.

Hamid repeatedly offers massively run-on sentences to his readers. That’s not for me. It’s just too hard to want to turn the page and read more of this book.

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