Monkeys Don't Ask Questions

Ironic, funny, and filled with multiple curious scientific anecdotes, the first book by psychologist and Twitter user @nyconene is an exploration of human behavior, designed to help readers understand themselves a little better and face their daily lives with good humor and, above all, with plenty of laughter.

Los monos no hacen preguntas is a tribute to humans walking through this world, sometimes with a firm step, other times stumbling, but always traveling the path as best as we can.

It’s a homage to our quirks, those small oddities that make us unique, and to our stories, shaped by what time gifts us or what life brands us with, like a scar as a tattoo we never asked for.

It also gives a nod to grandmothers, the wise ones from another time who clash with our view of the world but leave us an invaluable inheritance: sometimes light as a whisper, other times heavy as an anvil.

This is a song to self-care and companionship, to accepting our emotions or changing our thoughts if they hurt us. To the possibility of escaping our prejudices or, if that’s not possible, learning to live with them. Because in this book, there’s a bit of everything: reflections, doses of humor, and an invitation to pause for a second to think about who we are and how we live our small tragedies and big routines in the first world.

With a mix of irony, honesty, and a touch of science, this book doesn’t have all the answers (that’s why monkeys don’t bother asking questions), but perhaps it’ll help you better tune in to yourself and others.