@booklet {10136, title = {Plum Rains}, year = {2018}, month = {2018}, publisher = {Soho Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Part historical novel that begins in Japan in 2029 when the aging of the population is reaching a crisis point with the government trying to solve the problem of finding caregivers with robotic AI. One of the protagonists is a woman from the Philippines working as a caregiver for a wealthy old woman who has been given a robot programmed to learn and respond to all her needs. If she loses the job that allows her to support her family back in the Philippines, she will be expelled from the country. Some things, of course, go wrong as the old woman becomes attached to the robot and reveals secrets regarding her and Japan\’s past.

}, keywords = {Canadian author, Female author, US author}, isbn = {978-1-61695-901-2}, author = {Andromeda Romano-Lax (b. 1970)} }