“One morning Anders, a white man, woke up to find he had turned a deep and undeniable brown.” New fiction by Mohsin Hamid.
People who knew him no longer knew him. He passed them in his car or on the sidewalk, where sometimes they gave him extra room, and where sometimes, unthinkingly, he did the same.
Anders’s father had beaten him properly only once, he had hit him more than a few times, but a solid beating, that was only once, for his mother had long forbidden it, and the time he had beaten Anders it was because Anders had been negligent with a loaded rifle, discharging it by mistake, negligent after repeatedly being warned, and back then Anders was two heads shorter than his father, and his father, Anders thought, had been right to beat him, but it had been a beating Anders would never...
Anders’s boss had said he would have killed himself, and the following week a man in town did just that, his story followed by Anders in the local press, or rather online in the regional section of a large publication, the local paper having shut down long ago, this man shooting himself in front of his own house, a shooting heard but not seen by a neighbor, and called in, and assumed to be an act of home defense, the dark body lying there that of an intruder, shot with his own gun after a...
His father was slow to answer when Anders knocked on his door, and Anders was struck by how much his father had deteriorated in the weeks since Anders had last seen him, and the son knew for certain that the father was leaving now, knew that this mighty, skinny man was on his way out, nearly gone, and Anders was glad for his sunglasses, so that his father would not have to see the knowledge enter Anders’s eyes, and his father was bent over, just a bit, he who had always stood so straight, bent...
At work Anders was no longer the only one who had changed, there were others, and a gym that had been almost a whites-only gym now often had three, or even four, dark men present, and Anders had thought this would make things better, but it seemed the opposite was happening, and the gym was increasingly tense, and men who had known each other for years now acted like they did not know each other, or, worse, disliked each other, bore a grudge.
But they did not particularly relish that he had a weapon and seemed to have grabbed part of the initiative, that was their role after all, and they were not expecting this from him, and it muddied the simplicity of the situation, and so they halted, and they faced off, his acquaintance, the two strangers, and Anders, and Anders said hello guys, what can I do.
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