If you were moved by Klara’s careful observations from the storefront and her devotion to helping Josie—right down to bargaining with the Sun—you’ll love watching Sidra (an AI newly housed in a human body) try to build a life with Pepper’s gentle guidance. Like Klara, Sidra navigates friendship, autonomy, and purpose without hard tech talk, letting intimate moments and small kindnesses carry the heart of the story.

If what hooked you was how an AF like Klara quietly alters the rhythms of Josie’s family—her Mother’s fears, Rick’s ambitions, the house’s fragile balance—Pinsker’s novel zeroes in on a family of four divided by a brain implant called the Pilot. You’ll get the same close-up, room-by-room intimacy: dinners, arguments, choices that feel small but reverberate for years.

If Klara’s fierce caretaking of Josie—and her moral calculus in sabotaging the Cootings Machine to win the Sun’s favor—made you think about responsibility to created minds, Chiang’s story follows trainers who raise "digients" from infancy into unruly, sentient adolescents. It probes consent, personhood, and devotion with the same quiet, searching intensity.

If you loved living inside Klara’s gentle, literal-minded narration—her misreadings of adult motives, her reverence for the Sun—Piranesi’s journals offer a similarly pure lens. As he maps the endless House and writes about the Tides and the Other, the world’s true shape emerges gradually, rewarding your patience the way Klara’s limited perspective blossoms into revelation.

If Klara’s near-spiritual faith in the Sun—and the ritual of seeking its blessing to heal Josie—spoke to you, this gentle tale of a tea monk and a robot wandering through wild places will resonate. Like Klara’s sunlit symbolism, Dex and Mosscap’s conversations turn everyday sights into meaning, asking what it takes to be “good” and enough.