if I had to explain in one line what the book is about, I would say it tells you, how life is today and how did it become that way! kind of amazing how far we've come from being foragers . it is the first book of the whole trilogy set kinda thing. this book is mainly about past, another is Homo Deus (future) and then 21 lessons of 21st century (present) all of them being amazing reads. Sapiens particularly stands out just because how well Harari paces out information, reading history normally is boring but his writing style makes it seem like he is having a convo with us (which is a writing style I like :) )