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The Dream Hotel

The Dream Hotel

by Laila Lalami

A woman is detained at the airport because an algorithm reading her dreams decides she might harm her husband, a near-future novel of surveillance.

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Sara Hussein is detained at Los Angeles airport when an algorithm reading her dream data decides she might harm her husband. She is held for observation in a converted school, and each rule broken extends her stay. This near-future surveillance thriller asks how much of ourselves has to stay private if we are to stay free.

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Laila Lalami

Laila Lalami

Laila Lalami is a Moroccan-American novelist, essayist, and professor. After earning her licence ès lettres degree in Morocco, she received a fellowship to study in the United Kingdom (UK), where she earned an MA in linguistics. Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Lalami

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