5/5: Emotional Damage! Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel is the kind of novel that simmers under your skin long after you’ve closed the cover. Sara, returning home from a conference, is abruptly detained by the Risk Assessment Administration, an agency that claims to predict crimes before they happen, using data mined from her dreams. Her alleged offense? Loving her husband too fiercely. What follows is a masterclass in quiet horror: a sterile detention center, shifting rules that punish compliance as much as defiance, and a cast of women all condemned not for what they’ve done, but for what they ...