I picked this book up because I saw it recommended by a booktuber, and I wasn't expecting that much going into it. it should more accurately have been titled The War and Money Show” The alien showed how ridiculous we can be and how we needlessly torture ourselves. The extraterrestrial comes in with a distorted view of humans and through his eyes, we see the absurdity of some mundane things like jobs, news and so on. I know that some of you reading this are convinced humans are a myth, but I am here to state that they do actually exist.

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? I'm sure this is a great book for the right person: its ratings are high everywhere, so it's obviously floated a few boats. But then he starts liking and loving his wife, gets involved in the strained life of his growingup son to help him, and he likes the dog :-) And then he finds out life on earth is not so bad, although 'the humans' could learn a lot. I am always torn with Haig's work, it reads and feels like a top quality Hallmark movie, but always gives me the sense of trying too hard to be such. One of my favorites is this one: "A human life is on average 80 Earth years or around 30,000 Earth days.But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to this weird species than he has been led to believe. If you can’t feel anything towards life, let this story get that heart in your chest beating to life again. Meanwhile, he is having a deeply positive effect on his fake family, who have been in pain for years.

I couldn't sleep because when I closed my eyes all I could see was his body (I had to go to the mortuary with my father to formally identify his body. Haig’s unexpectedly raw tale of love, belonging, and peanut butter… It’s funny, clever and quite, quite lovely. It is an eternal and unhappy spiral that goes by the name of capitalism, and it is really quite popular. For example, while watching the news on TV, he discovered “The news was prioritized in a way I could not understand.That is why so much that is beautiful on this planet has to do with time passing and the Earth turning. I plead with you to read this book without prejudice, and to work out for yourself the true value of human life. Originally disgusted by humans, the alien begins to become attached to the Professor’s wife and son, where he gets another mission to kill the two.