The Humans

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That's the backstory to a book that opens with our alien narrator finding himself in the body of the professor, whom he has just assassinated. A novel with an enormous heart, infused with a sense of gratitude for everything that makes us who we are. The alien comes to love the puny, delicate, mortal human wife and son he has inherited by killing their husband and father and taking his place.

So for the sake of the universe, the aliens felt it necessary to eliminate the Professor and any one that he gave that knowledge to. The naïve protagonist, though very curious, was first and foremost disgusted by the way humans look, especially because of their protruding noses.The past was just the present that had died and the future would never exist anyway, because by the time we got to it the future would have turned into the present.

The Vonnadorians are horrified by this breakthrough as they see humans as a primitive, violent race not ready for the advancements the solving of the hypothesis will bring. You know how you think your family is pretty normal until you bring someone over to meet them and you see everything and everyone anew through his eyes? UPDATE 01/03/18: It's been four years since I read this novel and it still remains one of my all-time favorite books. While science fiction isn’t my go-to genre, I found The Humans to be very accessible given its present-day Earth setting. By this point, I’d mostly checked out, hoping the narrator had one last good joke in him about Catholics.This is a tender, funny novel about the often irrational ways humans behave, written in accessible prose, and invites comparison with Mark Haddon and Patrick Ness. With his experiences at the forefront of his mind, this book provides what you need to hear if you are suffering/ have ever suffered with depression.