Home is a place where one feels comfortable and welcomed. Home could be a literal house or it could be a community who share similarities. Racial identity, a perception of one’s own race, can play a huge role in where one feels at home. Mat Johnson takes a different view on racial identity and the role it has on the definition of home with his novel Loving Day. The novel addresses the conflict of home within the multicultural community by focusing on the feeling of belonging within characters such as Warren and Tal. We begin the novel with Warren having to move back to Germantown due to his father’s death. While Warren is not thrilled about his move back to a broken home, he has to repair the home his father left behind. To him the home is just a piece of junk that he has to take care of, it is not something he wants to live in. It does not feel like a home, just junk that killed his father. He decides to fix and sell the house since he needs the money. At a comic convention he discovers that he has a teenage daughter and quickly starts bonding with her. He tries to provide her with a nice home and a school where she feels…show more content… Her experiences and the sudden change in her view of home are similar to mine. She was used to living a certain way, a white lifestyle but was forced to change it after finding out about her father. She had to change her views of home, of self-belonging to fit in with her newly discovered race. Although not multiracial, I have experienced a sudden change in the way I view home when moving to the United States. Before the move, I saw my whole community as my home. I was comfortable with the community, I knew everyone, I felt like I actually belonged there. After moving, it was difficult for me to see the community as my home. I felt how Tal felt at Umoja, like an outsider trying to join a family. Just like Tal at the Mulattopia, I soon began to adapt to my community and once more feel at
