It is impossible not to laugh and cry at the same time at how our world functions. Matt Haig invites the reader into viewing human life through the point of view of an alien. He mentions that “the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.” The alien narrator depicts the ironies of life on earth through the eyes of humans. The novel opens with the alien narrator finding himself in the body of the professor, as he struggles to find his way into the human world to understand how humans function. Haig manages to display human conditions and gives an accurate picture of how alien the human race might seem at first. Professor Andrew Martin becomes the victim of an alien invasion that takes over his mind and body. In his book, The Humans, Matt Haig writes about body-snatching in a humorous way. When Professor Andrew Martin discovers the secret of prime numbers, something unusual happens to him.
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