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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
You might try The Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang which contains the short story that the film Arrival was based on.
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I would second this. Both that and his other collection,
Exhalation, are excellent reading; both are a mix of science fiction and harder to classify stories, and as astrangerhere said,
Story of Your Life (aka
Arrival) fits your specification, albeit perhaps not in the manner you are looking for.
There is also this pair of books by Hank Green:
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor. I loved the first one (4.5/5), although the alien part of the story is almost a side-plot to the social media part of the story. In the second book the alien aspect plays a bigger part, although human reaction remains the most significant part of the story. I was less enthused about the second book (3/5). If you don't mind a book that leaves big questions unanswered then you don't absolutely have to read on - and I actually liked the way the first book ended - but for your specification you're probably looking at reading through.