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SUMMARY:Laila Lalami\, THE DREAM HOTEL
DESCRIPTION:SEATTLE\, WA\n\nAbout the Book\n\nThe Dream Hotel is a riveting
  and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom\, set in
  a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.\n\nSara has just 
 landed at LAX\, returning home from a conference abroad\, when agents from
  the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she
  will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams\, the RAA’s algori
 thm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she 
 loves most: her husband. For his safety\, she must be kept under observati
 on for twenty-one days.\n\nThe agents transfer Sara to a retention center\
 , where she is held with other dreamers\, all of them women trying to prov
 e their innocence from different crimes. With every deviation from the str
 ict and ever-shifting rules of the facility\, their stay is extended. Mont
 hs pass and Sara seems no closer to release. Then one day\, a new resident
  arrives\, disrupting the order of the facility and leading Sara on a coll
 ision course with the very companies that have deprived her of her freedom
 .\n\nEerie\, urgent\, and ceaselessly clear-eyed\, The Dream Hotel artfull
 y explores the seductive nature of technology\, which puts us in shackles 
 even as it makes our lives easier. Lalami asks how much of ourselves must 
 remain private if we are to remain free\, and whether even the most invasi
 ve forms of surveillance can ever capture who we really are.\n\nAbout the 
 Author\n\nLaila Lalami is the author of five books\, including The Moor’
 s Account\, which won the American Book Award\, the Arab-American Book Awa
 rd\, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\; was on the longlist for the Boo
 ker Prize\; and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent nov
 el\, The Other Americans\, was a national bestseller\, won the Simpson/Joy
 ce Carol Oates Prize\, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her
  books have been translated into twenty languages. Lalami's writing appear
 s regularly in the Los Angeles Times\, The Washington Post\, The Nation\, 
 Harper’s\, The Guardian\, and The New York Times. She has been awarded f
 ellowships from the British Council\, the Fulbright Program\, the Guggenhe
 im Foundation\, and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She liv
 es in Los Angeles.\n\nPre-order your copy of The Dream Hotel here.
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