The Last White Man

District 9 vibes - less sci-fi/body horror, more the dystopian world used to make a more intimate portrait and statement on racism, a much more hopeful rendition. 
Central theme is racism, how it affects people's lives, what it could look like if it didn't, but it's certainly bringing in other strings of what's wrong with modern society (self-interest evident on social media, larger occurence of  chemical dependency/drug addiction, police on the side of white supremacists by their action or inaction, performative allyship “to be the sort of person who would have helped them”).
Holy run-on sentences, Batman! An adjustment period is necessary, especially if you're reading aloud, but the style fits with the sort of mental spiral each of the characters seems to start in. 
Both main characters caring for elderly parents who are sick/dying, with different perspectives in an increasingly divided world, a symbol of that previous generation, how it felt about race, how it can change/how it will die out? 
Space for connection and release in younger generation - the idea that you could possibly think differently enough to reach out to people you have felt uncomfortable doing so with before - that you could take it as a new start, a breaking with the old you, especially if the old you was riddled with  emotional pain. 
Loss = universal human experience.  
The wretched things that fear does - Oona's mother - so set in her beliefs that she can only meet this future with fear of the change.
Publishing date and certain passages suggests real life experience of quarantine may have worked it's way into the story.
Novella length allowed author to tell the whole story, didn't  feel short-changed, but given the sentence phrasing and rephrasing, I wonder if the narrative might also have managed the same impact as a short story?

It's a different story, certainly, but if anybody knows of anything in the contemporary/speculative genre that focuses on characters' shifted perspective after sudden transformation of GENDER, I would be very curious to read such a treatment, and see where the author takes it (I'll pass on anything that smacks of reinforcing heteronormativity, obvy).