Description
In a city where reinvention is both promise and performance, a mysterious hotel becomes the stage for intersecting lives, private ambitions, and the quiet costs of chasing reinvention. As guests arrive with carefully curated stories, the hotel’s staff and management confront the pressures of survival, belonging, and moral compromise—questions that grow sharper with every new check-in. Blending suspense with social observation, the novel explores themes of identity, hospitality, power, and the thin line between refuge and exploitation. With Laila Lalami’s incisive, human-centered storytelling, the book offers a vivid, contemporary portrait of how dreams are marketed, negotiated, and sometimes shattered behind closed doors.
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paperback
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Jan 1, 2025
336 pages
ISBN: 9780593317600
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First Published
2025
Language
eng
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