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From Laila Lalami - the Pulitzer Prize 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 surveillance.. 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.
About the Author
Laila Lalami was born in Rabat and educated in Morocco, Great Britain, and the United States. She the author of four novels, including 'The Moor's Account', which won the American Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and 'The Other Americans', which was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation, Harper's, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. She has received fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, and the Guggenheim Foundation and is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside. She lives in Los Angeles.
