Klara and the Sun (by Kazuo Ishiguro)

 I love Ishiguro. Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day are two of my absolute favorite novels, and Klara and the Sun is definitely of a piece with those two.  It’s about Klara, an AF (or Artificial Friend) and the family she goes to live with.

It treads semi-familiar territory: the question of whether robots can have emotions. The dramatic irony and unreliable narrator. The slow worldbuilding. The quietly heartbreaking ending. And Ishiguro is a master at all of the above.  It doesn’t quite achieve the heights of my two favorites, but it reaches pretty high.