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.
