Hum

‘What’s more intoxicating than a Helen Phillips novel? Her books have blown open the doors of what’s possible with the art of storytelling - and her latest, Hum, is her best work yet: one that captures, with fire and grace, our future and what it means to love, to persist, and to be human. This is a hold-your-breath book. Buckle up and get ready to deeply feel the joy - the thrill, the magic - of reading.’ - Paul Yoon‘An indelible family portrait and a narrative tour de force, Hum generates almost unbearable tension and unease from start to end. Stunning, strangely beautiful, and written from a place of deep compassion but also with a clear and analytical eye. Helen Phillips, in typical bravura fashion, has found a way to make visible uncomfortable truths about our present by interrogating the near-future. I loved it.’ - Jeff VanderMeer ‘A transcendent portrayal of artificial intelligence, love, the fate of families, and the emergence of synthetic beings beyond human imagination.’ - Clifford A. Pickover, author of Artificial Intelligence: An Illustrated History ‘An extraordinary and dazzlingly original work from one of our most gifted and interesting writers’ - Emily St. John Mandel on THE NEED

Helen Phillips is the author of six books, including The Need, a National Book Award nominee and a New York Times Notable Book. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and the Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction. She is an associate professor at Brooklyn College.