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The host introduced Lalami's new suspenseful novel about a woman detained for a crime she might commit and noted its comparison to a classic scifi novella.
In her new novel, The Dream Hotel, author Leila Lalami plunges us into the story of a woman who is imprisoned solely on the basis that she might commit a crime.
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The host introduced Lalami's new suspenseful novel about a woman detained for a crime she might commit and noted its comparison to a classic scifi novella.
In her new novel, The Dream Hotel, author Leila Lalami plunges us into the story of a woman who is imprisoned solely on the basis that she might commit a crime.
She won the American Book Award for her 2014 historical novel, The Moor's Account.
The Dream Hotel has been compared to Philip K. Dick's 1956 science fiction novella, The Minority Report.
The Dream Hotel is a suspenseful novel.
The book's simmering tension is whether Sarah will be able to find a way out of this trap.