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Plum rains

Romano-Lax, Andromeda, 1970- author

Overview

\"2029: In Japan, ... childbirth rates are at a critical low and the elderly are living increasingly long lives. This population crisis has precipitated a mass immigration of foreign medical workers from all over Asia--as well as the development of refined artificial intelligence to step in where humans fall short. In Tokyo, Angelica Navarro, a Filipina nurse who has been working in Japan for the last five years, is the caretaker for Sayoko Itou, an intensely private woman about to turn 100 years old ... But one day Sayoko receives a present from her son: a cutting-edge robot caretaker that will educate itself to anticipate Sayoko's every need. Angelica wonders if she is about to be forced out of her much-needed job by an inanimate object--one with a preternatural ability to uncover the most deeply buried secrets of the humans around it. While Angelica is fighting back against the AI with all of her resources, Sayoko is becoming more and more attached to the machine. The old woman is hiding many secrets of her own--and maybe now she's too old to want to keep them anymore\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Soho
• Subject: Artificial intelligence Fiction. / Nurses Fiction. / Job security Fiction. / Home health aides Fiction.
• ISBN: 9781616959012, 9781641290098, 9781641290258

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PS3618.O59 P58 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE