MEDIA RELEASES

Dominican University’s Book Club will discuss Alice Munro’s Friend of My Youth and Tillie Olsen’s Tell Me a Riddle on Wednesday, December 12 at 7:00 p.m. in Lewis Lounge, located on the first floor of Lewis Hall, 7900 West Division Street, River Forest.

Friend of My Youth is a masterful collection of 10 short stories. The subjects range from a woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother to an adulterous couple to a widow discovering unpleasant truths about her husband’s past. The stories are simply written but powerfully catch the essence of the characters’ personalities and the situations at hand.

Tell Me a Riddle is a collection of four short stories exploring the suffering and tragedy of the human experience. The central themes of the stories include the confrontation with aging, illness and death as well as the struggles of motherhood and marriage.

For more information about Dominican University’s Book Club, contact Mary Pat Fallon at (708) 524-6602 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 17 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the Institute for Adult Learning. In the 2008 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 tenth consecutive year.