Dream Surveillance Turns One Woman Into a Threat
Laila Lalami’s dystopia is chilling because surveillance enters the most private place imaginable: dreams. The novel turns risk assessment into nightmare logic, making its questions about data, control and fear feel timely, intimate and unsettling.
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Dream Surveillance Turns One Woman Into a Threat
Laila Lalami’s dystopia is chilling because surveillance enters the most private place imaginable: dreams. The novel turns risk assessment into nightmare logic, making its questions about data, control and fear feel timely, intimate and unsettling.
- Book Synopsis
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Sara is at the airport, travelling home from a work conference. Out of nowhere she's pulled aside by agents from the Risk Assessment Administration. Their algorithm has determined that she's an immediate threat to her husband, and must be kept under observation at a retention centre for twenty-one days. The evidence? Data collected from her dreams. When she arrives at the centre, she discovers that each slight deviation from their strict and ever-changing rules - loitering in the hallway, a 'non-compliant hairstyle' - results in her stay being extended. Desperate to return to her family, Sara must make a choice.
Does she play by their rules, or risk taking matters into her own hands?
Ideal for readers who:
- Are drawn to speculative fiction where dreams become evidence.
- Follow one woman trapped by an algorithmic threat assessment.
- Are concerned by surveillance, data power and intimate privacy.
- Value dystopian novels that feel timely, chilling and plausible.
- About The Author
- Laila Lalami is the author of five books, including The Moor's Account, which won the American Book Award, the Arab-American Book Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. It was longlisted for the Booker Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent novel, The Other Americans, was a US national bestseller, won the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her books have been translated into twenty languages. Lalami's writing appears regularly in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Nation, Harper's, Guardian and New York Times. She has been awarded fellowships from the British Council, the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles.
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- ISBN
- 9781526687166
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury, (18 June 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 mm
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