Hum
Book description
A Most Anticipated Book for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Goodreads, LitHub, and Book Riot
A Best Book of the Summer for Esquire, Electric Lit, and Town & Country
A People Book of the Week
From “one of our most profound writers of speculative fiction” (The New…
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Why read it?
2 authors picked Hum as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This very near-future dystopian story is about a woman facing life with robots and AI. May is a wife and mother of two who undergoes a procedure to make her face invisible to all the cameras and tracking AI that litter her world. Advertisements pop up everywhere including from the robots that are in every position in society. She and her family live in a world impacted by climate change so she decides to spend what little money she has to take her family to the Botanical Garden, a microcosm of what the world had been with lush greenery, waterfalls,…