Download or read book Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care written by Amelia DeFalco and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In March 2021, as I was completing the manuscript for Curious Kin, Kazuo Ishiguro published his eighth novel, Klara and the Sun, which encapsulates many of the questions and concerns central to my inquiry. Klara and the Sun tells the story of a solar-powered AF, or artificial friend named Klara and the family who purchases her. The novel traces Klara's early days as a piece of merchandise on display in a shop window, watching and waiting for potential buyers. She is eventually purchased for a teenager, Josie, who suffers from an unnamed chronic illness that we later learn is likely the result of genetic editing, termed "lifting" in the novel, which privileged children undergo to ensure university education and professional success in adulthood. In accordance with her design, Klara becomes Josie's companion and caregiver, keeping her company in between online lessons and tending to her health needs while Josie's mother works long hours in an unspecified, taxing job outside the home"--