Plum Rains
| Title | Plum Rains |
| Year for Search | 2018 |
| Authors | Romano-Lax, Andromeda(b. 1970) |
| Date Published | 2018 |
| Publisher | Soho Press |
| Place Published | New York |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-61695-901-2 |
| Keywords | Canadian author, Female author, US author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Holding Institutions | CtY, IU |
| Author Note | The female author (b. 1970) was born and raised in the U. S. and currently lives in Canada, and the novel is, in part, according to an author’s note, based on a period living in Taiwan |
| Full Text | 2018 Romano-Lax, Andromeda (b. 1970). Plum Rains. New York: Soho Press. 391 pp. CtY, IU US 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. The female author was born and raised in the U. S. and currently lives in Canada, and the novel is, in part, according to an author’s note, based on a period living in Taiwan. |
