* LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PRIX FEMINA FOR FICTION *
* Jenna Book Club Pick – March 2025 *
"A gripping, Kafkaesque journey into a future that feels all too plausible." — Jennifer Egan
"So brilliantly constructed, so relevant, everyone should read it—and break into a sweat." — The Times
"Extraordinary." — Rumaan Alam
"Absolutely unputdownable." — Sandra Newman
Sara is returning home from a conference abroad when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside at the airport. Using data extracted from her dreams, the agency's algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming her husband. For his safety, she must be transferred to a detention facility and kept under observation for twenty-one days.
As Sara joins other "high-risk dreamers" under constant surveillance, she discovers that every breach of the institution's rigid—and ever-changing—rules can result in their detention being extended. She soon realizes that returning home to her family will require far more than just three weeks of good behavior.
Then, one day, a new detainee arrives, disrupting the fragile order of the facility and setting Sara on a collision course with the very corporations that have stripped her of her freedom.
The Dream Hotel is a gripping speculative thriller that explores the seductive dangers of technologies designed to make our lives easier. As unsettling as it is imaginative, it examines how well we can ever truly know the people around us—even in a world governed by the most invasive systems of surveillance.