All right, we are down to our last three cities for the live in the stacks tour, and if the first two stops were any indication, you do not want to miss this tour.

I will be in Washington, D.C. with Jason Reynolds on September 24th. I will be in New York City with KSA layman on September 25th, and I will be in Los Angeles on October 18th with three guests.

Yes, three guests, three of my favorite friends of the podcast, Rachel Lindsay, Chelsea Devantes, and Sam Sanders.

The show promises a night of big laughs, hot takes, and more bookish conversation than you could possibly imagine.

Tickets are selling fast, so head to the stackspodcast.com slash tour right now before they sell out.

Welcome to the stacks, a podcast about books and the people who read them. I'm your host Tracy Thomas, and today we are speaking with Mosin Hammond, a best selling award-winning author of five novels whose work has been translated into 40 languages.

If you're an OG stacks listener, you'll know that Mosin Hammond's 2017 novel Exit West was our first ever book club pick.

So this conversation is extra special to me. Yes, I cried.

Today we're talking with Mosin about his latest novel, The Last White Man. It's the story of Anders, a white man who suddenly awakes one day with brown skin and feels a lot of rage towards losing his whiteness.

We discuss what inspired Mosin to write this book, what is gained from losing one's whiteness, and the conversation that he feels is ongoing between author and reader.

Just a heads up, there are no spoilers in today's episode.

Quick reminder, everything we talk about on each episode of the stacks can be found in the link in the show notes.

Our book club pick for August is How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chi, which we will be discussing on August 31st with Ingrid Rojas Contreras.

If you love the show and want more of it, head to patreon.com slash the stacks to join the stacks pack.

When you join, you get access to our virtual book club meetups, the stacks very lively and wonderful discord chat and our monthly bonus episodes.

Last month, we talked about happy endings and romance rules with Tia Williams, the author of Seven Days in June.

So if this sounds like something you'd be interested in, or you really just want to show your love for this little black woman run indie book podcast, head to patreon.com slash the stacks and join.

Thank you to some of our newest members of the stacks pack RT and Aaron K Doherty.

Thank you all so much, and of course, like every other week, thank you, thank you, thank you to the stacks pack. I could not do it without y'all.

And now it's time for my chat with Mosin Hammond.

All right, everybody, I say this every week, but this week I really am so excited because our guest is Mosin Hammond,

who many of you know as a fantastic writer and has a very special place in my heart because Mosin's book exit west was our first ever book club pick here on the stacks.

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