Join us for Books & Bites, our book club held at a different local restaurant each month!

This month we'll discuss The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami.  We will meet at 6:30 p.m. at 1922 Coffee & Brew.

Address: 1505 Madison Ave.,  Painesville, OH 44077

Copies of next month's book will be available at this meeting. You can also pick one up at our circulation desk. 

Publisher's summary: 

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ● READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY ● 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. With every deviation from the strict and ever-shifting rules of the facility, their stay is extended. Months pass and Sara seems no closer to release. Then one day, a new resident arrives, disrupting the order of the facility and leading Sara on a collision course with the very companies that have deprived her of her freedom.

Eerie, urgent, and ceaselessly clear-eyed, The Dream Hotel artfully explores the seductive nature of technology, which puts us in shackles even as it makes our lives easier. Lalami asks how much of ourselves must remain private if we are to remain free, and whether even the most invasive forms of surveillance can ever capture who we really are.

PLEASE NOTE:

• Registration for each month's meeting is required due to limited space.
• Food and drink are not included in this program. If you choose to order from the menu, you will be responsible for your own check. 
• If you choose to consume alcohol, please drink responsibly. The library is not responsible for any injury, damages or liability resulting from a patron's consumption of alcohol.