an absolutely remarkable thing by hank green

On her way home late one night, April encounters an armored humanoid figure, which turns out to be alien in nature-“And I don’t mean alien like ‘weird,’' she says. It’s endearing how fully he occupies his narrator, a 20-something bi artist named April May who is wasting her youth slaving at a Manhattan startup. Luckily, he applies wit, affection, and cultural intelligence to a comic sci-fi novel suitable for adults and mature teens. To be honest, I’m a little irritated at how good the book is.A young graphic artist inspires worldwide hysteria when she accidentally makes first contact with an alien.įamous multimedia wunderkind Green is brother to that John Green, so no pressure or anything on his debut novel. ‘ An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is pure book joy’ Lev Grossman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians Trilogy ‘Hank Green hasn’t just written a great mystery adventure (though he has), and he hasn’t just written the most interesting meditation on the internet and fame I’ve ever seen (but he did that too), Hank has written a book expands your mind while taking you on a hell of a ride’ Joseph Fink, author of Welcome to Night Vale ‘A fun, contemporary adventure that cares about who we are as humans, especially when faced with remarkable events’ Kirkus (starred review) *This edition includes beautifully designed endpapers and is definitely not one to miss out on* Ĭompulsively entertaining and powerfully relevant, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing grapples with how the social internet is changing fame and radicalisation how our culture deals with fear and uncertainty and how vilification and adoration can follow a life in the public eye. Now April has to deal with the pressure on her relationships, her identity and her safety that this new position brings, all while being on the front lines of the quest to find out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us. There are Carls in dozens of cities around the world – everywhere from Beijing to Buenos Aires – and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the centre of an international media spotlight.

The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. Delighted by its appearance – like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armour – April and her friend Andy make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube.

While roaming the streets of New York City at 3 a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture she calls Carl.

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An absolutely remarkable thing by hank green