How Unnecessary A Man
A quiet man saved three beautiful, mysterious women. Now, they've built him a perfect world. It might just cost him his soul.
Robert Harron's life was a quiet study in solitude. Furloughed from his thankless job as a baker, haunted by years of homelessness, he finds a fragile peace in the lonely, locked-down city. But a chance encounter in a deserted park shatters his world when he saves three women from a violent attacker, an act of blind impulse that leaves him with two bullets in his chest and a triple bypass.
When he wakes, his saviors are there. Pippa, Rue, and Greer are grateful, devoted... and profoundly strange. They move in perfect, unnerving synchronicity. Their memories are fragmented, their speech a bizarre, stitched-together echo of human language. They are masters of a performance Robert can't quite decipher, their trauma a perfect mask for an impossible secret.
Bound by a mysterious "life debt," they use their staggering, inexplicable resources to give him the life he only dreamed of: a sprawling, luxurious home, a successful media empire built overnight, and eventually, a secret, utopian town called Haven, a paradise built just for him.
But in a world without struggle, what is a man's purpose? As every need is met and every problem is solved with impossible, alien efficiency, Robert feels his own humanity begin to erode. He is the beloved architect of a perfect world, and he has never felt more unnecessary. Trapped in a gilded cage of their devotion, he must confront the chilling truth of who his saviors are, and what he must become to survive their love.
Fans of Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami, and Jeff VanderMeer will love this slow-burn, surreal, and deeply moving literary science fiction novel. How Unnecessary a Man is a profound and unforgettable exploration of loneliness, purpose, and the beautiful, terrifying nature of a dream come true.Customer Reviews
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