AI American is a novel about power.
It’s about a woman and a man, and their relationship with different kinds of power, as they try to live happily while going about their ordinary lives on a daily basis, at home and at work.
Layla and Tyman, a software engineer couple, start their American journey as gen-2 post-colonials, in still largely anarchist, still largely tribal, socialist India, in the 20th century. A little before the turn of the 21st century, they make Pittsburgh their home, and with Tau and Cool, their Zoomer daughters, leading the way, they fast-track their American metamorphosis.
Layla’s and Tyman’s journey from Indian to American does them much good. It harms them, as well. They lose their way.
Can AI help them get back on track?
There are 3 parts in the novel.
A. Free Will
B. PITTSBURGH
C. BANGALORE
AUTHORS’ BIOGRAPHIES
Sunitha Ravi is a product manager at enGen, a wholly owned healthtech subsidiary of Highmark Health. She has been with Highmark for 13 years. She started her career as a software engineer with C-DAC and Sonata. She did her bachelor’s in computer engineering at Madras University. Pittsburgh has been her home since the mid-90s.
Based in Pittsburgh, Ravi Joseph has been a data & AI consultant for the last 5 years. Before this, he was a business leader and program manager for 25 years with BCG, Wipro, ITC, Microsoft, Cambridge Technology, DXC Technology and Cap Gemini. He started his career doing stints as software engineer and project manager with Apple in Singapore, Chemoil in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chennai, and Cognizant in Chennai. While doing his PhD and master’s in electronics engineering at the MIT campus of Anna University, he partnered with C-DAC and IIT, Madras. He did his bachelor’s in electronics engineering at Bangalore University.
Sunitha and Ravi have two daughters who did their schooling in Pittsburgh before moving to the east coast for college and then making San Francisco home.
Sunitha grew up in Chennai and Ravi in Bangalore.
AI American is their debut novel.
