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DU Book Club Discusses The Grass is Singing

Dominican University’s Book Club will meet on Thursday, March 25 to discuss Doris Lessing’s first novel, The Grass is Singing. The book club meets at 7:00 p.m. in Room 002 of the Rebecca Crown Library on the Main campus, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

The Grass is Singing is an understated social critique of apartheid South Africa during the early/mid 20th century. The main character, Mary Turner, a confident and independent young woman, becomes miserable after marrying an unproductive farmer and spending many boring years living on the farm. When an intriguing black servant, Moses, arrives on the farm, Mary and Moses become ensnared in a net of increasing attraction and repulsion, which leads up to the explosive closing scene of the book.

For more information about Dominican University’s Book Club, contact Mary Pat Fallon at (708) 524-6870 or at mpfallon@dom.edu.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Graduate School of Business and Information Systems, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the Institute for Adult Learning. In the 2004 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the sixth consecutive year.