Plum Rains, Andromeda RomanoLax
Plum Rains, Andromeda RomanoLax
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Plum Rains

Author: Andromeda Romano-Lax

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Unabridged: 13 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/05/2018

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

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. Angelica is a dedicated nurse, working night and day to keep her paperwork in order, obey the strict labor laws for foreign nationals, study for her ongoing proficiency exams, and most of all keep her demanding client happy. 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.

About Andromeda Romano-Lax

Andromeda Romano-Lax is the author of The Spanish Bow, a New York Times Editors' Choice that has been translated into eleven languages; The Detour; Behave; and Plum Rains, which won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic; as well as numerous works of nonfiction. She is a cofounder of 49 Writers, a statewide literary organization in Alaska, and lives on a small island in British Columbia.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Loring

If Romano-Lax did nothing in this novel but create a new sub-genre of science fiction regarding international labor relations and sentient robots, that would be quite an accomplishment. But she attempts much more, in an understated work that explores relationships, dependencies and secrets, without......more

Goodreads review by Dan

Memoirs of a Geisha meets 2001: A Space Odyssey. In near future Japan, an indebted Fillipina nurse finds her job in jeopardy when her 100-year-old patient develops a close relationship with a robot. What follows is a story of buried secrets, environmental destruction, and immigration. Romano-Lax hoo......more