{"product_id":"the-dream-hotel-a-read-with-jenna-pick-isbn-9780593317600","title":"The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSara 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEerie, urgent, and ceaselessly clear-eyed, \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Hotel \u003c\/i\u003eartfully 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.“A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future where data collection penetrates interior life, \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e is also an elegant meditation on identity, motherhood, and what we sacrifice, unthinkingly, for the sake of convenience.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Jennifer Egan, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Candy House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Dream Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e offers a stark vision of the future—in which America is a surveillance state, ruled by the intertwined forces of capital and government, powered by all-too-fallible algorithm that determines criminality based on citizen’s dreams. That’s plainly a metaphor for extant practices of social control, but Laila Lalami’s extraordinary new novel is more than just a political warning; the book is an exploration of the psyche itself, the strange ungovernable forces of fate and emotion that make us human.”\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eRumaan Alam, author of \u003ci\u003eLeave the World Behind\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLAILA LALAMI\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Moor’s Account\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award, and the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award; and was longlisted for the Booker Prize. Her most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Americans\u003c\/i\u003e, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Kirkus Prize and the National Book Award. Her writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside.","brand":"Pantheon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303295701221,"sku":"NP9780593317600","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593317600.jpg?v=1730753781","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-dream-hotel-a-read-with-jenna-pick-isbn-9780593317600","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}