The Massachusetts Medievalist couldn't put down Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, which appeared in March 2021 but had escaped my notice and my library holds list until now. Like any good dystopian fiction, this novel presents us with a world eerily similar to ours, and it's not too difficult to see how a few more advances in artificial intelligence and hypercompetitive parenting would produce a world like Klara's.
Great little fable although not his best. Klara is perhaps the only truly caring creature in the book.