The bestselling, award-winning author of The Midnight Library offers
his funniest, most devastating dark comedy yet, a "silly, sad,
suspenseful, and soulful" (Philadelphia Inquirer) novel that's "full
of heart" (Entertainment Weekly).
When an extra-terrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first
impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form
of Professor Andrew Martin, a prominent mathematician at Cambridge
University, the visitor is eager to complete the gruesome task assigned
him and hurry home to his own utopian planet, where everyone is
omniscient and immortal.
He is disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, their capacity
for murder and war, and is equally baffled by the concepts of love and
family. But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to
this strange species than he had thought. Disguised as Martin, he drinks
wine, reads poetry, develops an ear for rock music, and a taste for
peanut butter. Slowly, unexpectedly, he forges bonds with Martin's
family. He begins to see hope and beauty in the humans' imperfection,
and begins to question the very mission that brought him there.
Praised by The New York Times as a "novelist of great seriousness and
talent," author Matt Haig delivers an unlikely story about human nature
and the joy found in the messiness of life on Earth. The Humans is a
funny, compulsively readable tale that playfully and movingly explores
the ultimate subject--ourselves.
