The Humans
- Author
- Matt Haig
- Published
- May 9, 2013
- Length
- 308 pages
After an 'incident' one wet Friday night where Professor Andrew Martin is found walking naked through the streets of Cambridge, he is not feeling quite himself. Food sickens him. Clothes confound him. Even his loving wife and teenage son are repulsive to him. He feels lost amongst a crazy alien spe…
My review
★★★★★ (5/5)
An extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth to destroy evidence of a major scientific discovery. But then he discovers... peanut butter. And dogs. And poetry. And feelings!
It's weird, profound, and comforting, with existential chaos, dark humor, and a very confused extraterrestrial trying to understand why humans cry at sunsets but also fight wars?!
This was my second book from Matt Haig (after The Midnight Library), I read it last year and became officially obsessed with this author, of the way its books always make me happy.
It's a perfect spring book about rebirth, wonder, and finding beauty in the messy human experience.
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