Black Swans - Christina Kettering

Two sisters face a decision: whether to place their elderly mother, who requires care, in a nursing home. The older sister is uncertain, while the younger wants to take the elderly woman into her home and care for her. However, it soon becomes clear that she cannot manage two children, household duties, and caregiving all at once. To make matters worse, her mother does not make life easy for her.

To help her sister, the older one buys "Rosie" - a humanoid care robot programmed to assist with their mother's needs. Despite initial difficulties, the younger sister's problems seem solved: she has more time, her mother is content, and the constant sense of being overwhelmed disappears. Yet gradually, Rosie with her perfected routines occupies more and more space in family life, and her artificial intelligence sets the pace.

Does artificial intelligence help us, or will it one day be able to control us? This is the central question that Christina Kettering develops from an everyday situation that many can relate to. The title "Black Swans" plays with a philosophical metaphor for things we cannot imagine, but which suddenly occur and become reality.