Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick: A novel

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Klara is an Artificial Friend — a solar-powered companion designed to observe and serve the children who purchase her. From her place in a store window, she studies the patterns of human behavior with extraordinary perception, developing theories about emotion, loyalty, and the Sun's healing power that are both scientifically naive and profoundly moving. When she is finally chosen by Josie, a chronically ill teenager, Klara's devotion becomes the vehicle for the novel's deepest questions. Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel after receiving the Nobel Prize examines love, mortality, and what it means to be human — through the eyes of a being that is not. Klara's narration is precise and alien, her misunderstandings of human behavior revealing truths that the humans around her cannot see. A novel about the difference between understanding love and performing it — and the devastating possibility that a machine might be better at both.