There’s a lot more to this book than you might expect. I read it twice — once to get a feel for the story, another time to engage with it. I generally find that with graphic novels, the second reading is much more impactful than the first.

The easy pitch is “The author and her dad trained an AI on her grandfather’s writing, here’s how that went”, but that’s way too simple.

Kurzweil (daughter of Ray, the Singularity guy) goes full memoir here, and the book is much better for it. She asks big questions about the nature of life, personality, art and the ownership of those things. She goes deep with the history of her grandfather and other figures, and the struggles she went through finding her footing with her husband, early in their relationship.

The art is fantastic, as you expect. You could write a term paper on the technique and style changes that happen throughout this book and how they interact with the story she’s telling. She suggests this line is from the chatbot:

A work of art begins by opening to us the inner life of its creator; it ends by revealing us to ourselves.

…but I’m sure it’s hers alone, and it describes the book perfectly. I loved this and I’ll be reading it again.