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SUMMARY:Staff Picks Book Discussion Group
DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260520T173000
URL;VALUE=URI:https://calendar.scottsdalelibrary.org/u/22bba514d1
DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260520T183000
LOCATION:Civic Center Library\, North Drinkwater Boulevard\, Scottsdale\, A
 Z\, USA
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us each month for a lively conversation centered on titl
 es selected by staff within a variety of genres.\n\nThis month we will be 
 reading and discussing The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami. Find it in our cat
 alog [here](https://scottsdale.polarislibrary.com/polaris/search/title.asp
 x?ctx=1.1033.0.0.3&pos=1&cn=1490379)!\n\n"From Laila Lalami-the Pulitzer P
 rize 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 surveillanc
 e. Sara has just landed at LAX\, returning home from a conference abroad\,
  when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and in
 form her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams\, t
 he 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 reten
 tion center\, where she is held with other dreamers\, all of them women tr
 ying to prove their innocence from different crimes. With every deviation 
 from the strict and ever-shifting rules of the facility\, their stay is ex
 tended. Months pass and Sara seems no closer to release. Then one day\, a 
 new resident arrives\, disrupting the order of the facility and leading Sa
 ra on a collision course with the very companies that have deprived her of
  her freedom. Eerie\, urgent\, and ceaselessly clear-eyed\, The Dream Hote
 l artfully explores the seductive nature of technology\, which puts us in 
 shackles even as it makes our lives easier. Lalami asks how much of oursel
 ves must remain private if we are to remain free\, and whether even the mo
 st invasive forms of surveillance can ever capture who we really are"-- Pr
 ovided by publisher.
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