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The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER ● READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ● From Laila Lalami--the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a "maestra of literary fiction" (NPR)--comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman's fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.

Sara 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 algorithm 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 observation for twenty-one days.

The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes. With every deviation from the strict and ever-shifting rules of the facility, their stay is extended. Months 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 collision course with the very companies that have deprived her of her freedom.

Eerie, urgent, and ceaselessly clear-eyed, The Dream Hotel artfully 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 invasive forms of surveillance can ever capture who we really are.

Book Details

ISBN: 

9780593317600

EAN: 

9780593317600

Binding: 

Hardcover

Pages: 

336

Authors: 

Laila Lalami

Publisher: 

Pantheon Books

Published Date: 2025-04-03

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John Napolitano
Wife said a must read book

My wife loved the book

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Beth Ann Miller
Anticlimactic ending

Enjoyed the journey of this book but ending wasn't as satisfying as I hoped and feel a little let down. Found myself angry often throughout the story at all the unfairness and injustice.

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Carrie
Add to your TBR

I loved this book. Its unique dystopian story line was refreshing and intriguing to read. This book can be juxtaposed to current times of AI and how technology can blur the lines of privacy and the consequences of sharing too much. Well written plot and writing style. I usually cannot stand 3rd POV but I barely noticed it in this book. My book club also loved it

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Cat
A good read

I would recommend this book. Kept me entertained the whole book. Makes you think how much data they really have on you.

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Kenneth L. Boekhaus
Good Idea, But a Little Slow

I bought this book because I was intrigued by the story line. To be honest, I thought the book was slow until the end. There was a nice twist at the end.