Book Group: The Humans: A Novel

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 subjectundefinedourselves.

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