The Strangeness of Being Human: Six Short Novellas

By Ron Simonian

What does it mean to be human when love becomes absurd, grief refuses to behave, and survival demands the unthinkable?

In The Strangeness of Being Human, six darkly comic novellas explore people pushed into circumstances where the ordinary rules no longer apply. A funeral becomes an unexpected reckoning. Two strangers search desperately for something they can still feel. A marriage is tested by a betrayal that cuts disturbingly close to home. Love collides with the complicated hierarchy between people and their animals. And lifelong friends discover just how far hunger-and loyalty-can take them.

Strange, provocative, tender, and often very funny, these stories find humanity in its most uncomfortable places. Their characters may behave irrationally, desperately, or even grotesquely, yet beneath the darkness lies something deeply recognizable: the need to be loved, understood, forgiven, and remembered.

Adapted by award-winning playwright Ron Simonian from six of his stage plays bearing the same titles, The Strangeness of Being Human is a collection about the peculiar ways people confront desire, betrayal, loneliness, mortality, and one another.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HH9G6NFC
• ISBN13: 9798170796748
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"