After they discover a complex riddle involving the Queen song “Don’t Stop Me Now,” the mystery becomes a quest for April Andy April’s roommate/kind-of-sort-of girlfriend, Maya a scientist named Miranda and April’s new assistant, Robin, to figure out what the Carls are doing here. April’s life is turned upside down when the video goes massively viral and immovable Carls appear in cities around the world. She phones her videographer friend Andy Skampt, who posts on YouTube a funny introduction to the robot she dubs Carl. On her way home late one night, April encounters an armored humanoid figure, which turns out to be alien in nature-“And I don’t mean alien like ‘weird,’" she says. It’s endearing how fully he occupies his narrator, a 20-something bi artist named April May who is wasting her youth slaving at a Manhattan startup. Luckily, he applies wit, affection, and cultural intelligence to a comic sci-fi novel suitable for adults and mature teens. A young graphic artist inspires worldwide hysteria when she accidentally makes first contact with an alien.įamous multimedia wunderkind Green is brother to that John Green, so no pressure or anything on his debut novel.
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