The Aliens Have Requested My Mother

The aliens have made first contact. Unfortunately, they've asked for Elena Torres.Sixty-eight-year-old Elena Torres has plans.She needs to go to Presidente. Chicken is on sale. She has a dentist appointment Monday. And she would very much like her daughter, Mercy, to stop acting like she's incapable of managing her own life.Then every phone in Miami announces that extraterrestrial life has contacted Earth.And requested Elena by name.Mercy would also like an explanation.It turns out Elena has spent twenty-three years corresponding with beings she thought lived in Saskatchewan. She answered their questions about family, grief, food, obligation, loneliness, neighbors, children, and why humans keep showing up for one another even when there's nothing they can fix.They were listening.Now governments want answers. Scientists want data. Humanity wants to know what the visitors intend.The visitors just want to talk to Elena.Because for all they've learned about Earth, there are things observation can't explain. Why some meals become memories. Why people bring food when someone dies. Why belonging gets complicated. What an ordinary Tuesday feels like.And why, when someone shows up at your door, sometimes you simply make room at the table.Warm, sharp, and deeply funny, The Aliens Have Requested My Mother is a first-contact comedy about mothers and daughters, the absurdity of being human, and one retired school office manager who may understand humanity better than anyone expected.