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The novel was described as a dystopian story about a woman imprisoned because an algorithm flags her as a future crime risk, and it was praised as a suspenseful, gripping work.
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 novel was described as a dystopian story about a woman imprisoned because an algorithm flags her as a future crime risk, and it was praised as a suspenseful, gripping work.
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.
This is the dystopian premise of Leila Lalami's gripping new novel, The Dream Hotel.
The Dream Hotel has been compared to Philip K. Dick's 1956 science fiction novella, The Minority Report.
Lalami was inspired to write the novel after receiving a notification from her smartphone... 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.