If you came across AN ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE THING at 3 a.m. in New York City . . . Would you
keep walking? Or do the one thing that would change your life forever? The Carls just
appeared. Coming home from work at three a.m. twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across
a giant sculpture. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship - like a ten-foot-tall
Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armour - April and her friend Andy make a video with it
which Andy uploads to YouTube. The next day April wakes up to a viral video and a new life.
News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world - everywhere
from Beijing to Buenos Aires - and April as their first documentarian finds herself at the
centre of an intense international media spotlight. Now April has to deal with the pressure
on her relationships her identity and her safety that this new position brings all while
being on the front lines of the quest to find out not just what the Carls are but what they
want from us. Compulsively entertaining and powerfully relevant An Absolutely Remarkable
Thing grapples with big themes including how the social internet is changing fame rhetoric
and radicalisation how our culture deals with fear and uncertainty and how vilification and
adoration spring from the same dehumanization that follows a life in the public eye. This
edition includes beautifully designed endpapers and is definitely not one to miss out on.
