MEDIA RELEASES

Dominican University’s Book Club will discuss The Fall of a Sparrow, by Robert Hellenga, on Wednesday, March 19 at 7:00 p.m. The discussion will be held in Lewis Lounge, located on the first floor of Lewis Hall, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

The Fall of a Sparrow centers on Woody Woodhull, a classics professor at a small Illinois college. Seven years after the death of his eldest daughter in a terrorist bombing in Italy, his wife has left him, his remaining two daughters have grown up, and his grief endures. His career ruined by an affair with a student, Woodhull decides to attend the trial of the terrorists in Bologna, marking the beginning of a new life.

Hellenga teaches at Knox College in Galesburg, where he is the George Appleton Laurence Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in English. He is the author of five novels, including the critically acclaimed The Sixteen Pleasures.

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 15 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 School of Leadership and Continuing Studies. 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.