READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ΓùÅ From Laila LalamiΓÇöthe Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a ΓÇ£maestra of literary fictionΓÇ¥ (NPR)ΓÇöcomes a riveting and utterly original novel about one womanΓÇÖs fight for freedom,set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance. Sara has just landed at LAXreturning home from a conference abroadwhen agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreamsthe RAAΓÇÖs algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safetyshe must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention centerwhere she is held with other dreamersall of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes. With every deviation from the strict and ever-shifting rules of the facilitytheir stay is extended. Months pass and Sara seems no closer to release. Then one daya new resident arrivesdisrupting the order of the facility and leading Sara on a collision course with the very companies that have deprived her of her freedom. Eerieurgentand ceaselessly clear-eyedThe Dream Hotel artfully explores the seductive nature of technologywhich 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 freeand whether even the most invasive forms of surveillance can ever capture who we really are.