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But, you know, it’s the internet…gotta put five million SPOILER warnings on ever little thing. SPOILERS FOR AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE THING. Wow, that was obnoxious. Anyway, here’s my obligatory spoiler warning: WARNING. I enjoy his brother’s books, so when I learned that Hank was writing a book I was super excited. I’m gonna go out on a limb here and guess that nobody has had this experience, but April May from Hank Green’s new book An Absolutely Remarkable Thing has. Okay tons of people would blame you, lots of people kind of just exist to judge, but I wouldn’t blame you and I know my opinion is the one you really care about.Īnyway, back to the robot. Nobody would blame you, it is the age of social media.

Or even Facebook if you’re in the Facebook Generation.

Probably pull out your phone and take a picture, maybe open up Snapchat or Instagram. But beneath its effervescent tone, more complex themes are at play.What would you do if you were just casually walking home from work and you saw a 10-foot tall robot statue that most definitely had not been there the day before? Maybe not even the hour before. "Sparkling with mystery, humor and the uncanny, this is a fun read. The beginning of an exciting fiction career, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is a bold and insightful novel of now. Compulsively entertaining and powerfully relevant, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing grapples with big themes, including how the social internet is changing fame, rhetoric, and radicalization how our culture deals with fear and uncertainty and how vilification and adoration spring for the same dehumanization that follows a life in the public eye. And all eyes are on April to figure out not just what the Carls are, but what they want from us. Seizing the opportunity to make her mark on the world, April now has to deal with the consequences her new particular brand of fame has on her relationships, her safety, and her own identity. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world-from Beijing to Buenos Aires-and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship-like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor-April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. Roaming through New York City at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. In his wildly entertaining debut novel, Hank Green -cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow- spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined.