"The Humans" by Matt Haig

Join us to discuss the 2013 science fiction book "The Humans" by Matt Haig!

We'll be talking about the book and whatever subjects that discussion leads into. You don't have to finish the book to attend. You can also talk about one of our previous books if you missed an event. Hope to see you there!

Note that our upcoming events in November and December will be moved to the first and third Wednesdays to avoid the holidays.

Almost all of the books chosen for this group should be available in either the Pioneer or Metropolitan library system. Get a library card if you don't have one! You can also access eBooks and audiobooks from the library with the Libby or Hoopla apps.
https://pioneerlibrarysystem.org
https://www.metrolibrary.org

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When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive. Taking the form of Professor Andrew Martin, a leading mathematician at Cambridge University, the visitor wants to complete his task and return home to his planet and a utopian society of immortality and infinite knowledge.

He is disgusted by the way humans look, what they eat, and the wars they witness on the news, and is totally baffled by concepts such as love and family. But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to this weird species than he has been led to believe. He drinks wine, reads Emily Dickinson, listens to Talking Heads, and begins to bond with the family he lives with, in disguise. In picking up the pieces of the professor's shattered personal life, the narrator sees hope and redemption in the humans' imperfections and begins to question the very mission that brought him there--a mission that involves not only thwarting human progress... but murder.
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