Downtown Fargo Bookclub!

Name: Downtown Fargo Bookclub!
Start: 2025-08-28T18:00:00-05:00
Location: The Boiler Room Fargo

Schedule

Thu, 28 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

The Boiler Room Fargo | Fargo, ND

📚✨ Join Our 3rd Ever Book Club Night! ✨📚
[Come if you even haven't read the book entirely!]
This month’s club pick:
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami 💭🏨
Selected by you—our amazing club crew!
🎉 Special Book Club Offer:
📘 Buy your copy at Ferguson Books and enjoy:
📚 10% OFF the book
🎁 A FREE used book of your choice
💳 FBM Members get an extra 10% OFF and a second FREE used book!
🍷 What to Expect:
🗣️ Fun, relaxed discussion
🍹 Drinks & tasty apps
😂 Plenty of laughs
🎁 AND every attendee gets a surprise gift!

📅 The September book will be chosen by YOU — our crew who attends!
Bring your thoughts, bring a friend, and let’s keep building something bookishly beautiful together. ❤️
#FergusonBookClub #ReadTogether #BookishFun
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About the book:
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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. 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.
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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 on the longlist for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Other Americans, was a national bestseller, won the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. Her books have been translated into twenty languages. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, The Nation, Harper’s, the Guardian, and the 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.