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 โone of our most profound writers of speculative fictionโ (The New York Times), this โtense dystopian thrillerโ (Time) and โtender portrait of love and care in an uncertain worldโ (Esquire) is an urgent and unflinching portrayal of a womanโs fight for her familyโs security in a world shaped by global warming and rapid technological progress.
In a near-future world addled by climate change and inhabited by intelligent robots called โhums,โ May loses her job to artificial intelligence. Desperate to resolve her familyโs debt and secure their future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by surveillance.
Seeking reprieve from her recent hardships and her familyโs addiction to their devices, May splurges on passes for her family to spend three nights respite in the Botanical Garden: a rare green refuge where forests, streams, and animals still thrive. But when her children come under threat, May is forced to put her trust in a hum of uncertain motives to save her family.
Written with โprecision, insight, sensitivity, and compassionโ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Hum is a โstriking new work of dystopian fictionโ (Vogue) that delves into the complexities of marriage, motherhood, and selfhood in a world compromised by global warming and dizzying technological advancement, a world of both dystopian and utopian possibilities.
Sciencefiction en fantasy