Set My Heart to Five

Аннотация

'A beautiful, funny, heartfelt analysis of what it means to be human' Simon Pegg Eleanor Oliphant meets The Rosie Project meets The Good Place in a brilliantly funny, heartwarming debut about loneliness, connection, humanity – and the ways we come to understand one another Here is something curious I have observed about humans: informing them I am incapable of feeling often makes them feel sad. I suspect they believe they are being empathetic, but in fact they are being paradoxical. After all, feeling sad in response to someone telling you they lack feelings is like running a marathon in response to somebody telling you they lack legs... Jared has always been baffled by humans: by their sarcasm, their politeness and their inexplicable fascination with phallic-shaped objects. But then perhaps this is understandable. Because although he may look like a human, and talk like a human, Jared is in fact, an android. One of millions, he works as a dentist in downtown Michigan, smiling...