Love, hope, empathy. Some of the most important human traits, and yet often they are tossed away in moments of fear as desperation. Klara, a clever, very human seeming AF (artificial friend) , complete with her own version of cosmology, lives a quiet life where such questions circle around her, and she does her best to remind the humans she interacts with of their own nature, with varying degrees of success, and quite a bit of failure. Be prepared for Ishiguro’s tendency to never fully explain the world his stories take place in. If you’re the kind of reader who needs explicit answers, this is not the right book for you.