The Bookies is the Goodwin Library’s book club! Join us in May to discuss The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami.
We always have multiple copies of the book available for checkout—stop by to pick one up! New members are always welcome.
This program can be attended in-person or online. Please email Joyce at jwhite@goodwinlibrary.org if you would like the Zoom link.
Summary: Sara 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.
The 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.
