SUNNY

SOON TO BE A MAJOR STREAMING SERIESA riveting technological thriller following a woman whose life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash and she is left alone with an unnerving home robot only to get caught up in an AI-related conspiracy. In near-future Japan Susie Sakamoto is mourning the loss of her husband and son to a plane crash. Alone in her big modern house which feels like more of a prison Susie spends her days drinking heavily and taking her anger out at the only “sentient” thing left in her life: Sunny the annoying home robot her husband designed. Susie despises Sunny and sometimes even gets a sinking feeling that Sunny is out to hurt her.To escape her paranoia and depression Susie frequents the seedy drug-fueled bars of the city where she hears rumors of The Dark Manual a set of guidelines that allow you to reprogram your robot for nefarious purposes. In the hopes of finding a way to turn off Sunny for good Susie begins to search for the manual only to learn it’s too late: the machines are becoming more sentient and dangerous. Thrust into the center of a dark corporate war Susie realizes there’s someone behind the code pulling the strings. And they want her dead.With a darkly humorous yet propulsive and lyrical voice O’Sullivan presents us with an unsettling look at a future that feels all too real. Gripping and thought-provoking Sunny is a haunting character study of an anxious woman teetering in an anxious time.