MEDIA RELEASES

Dominican University’s Book Club will discuss selections from Dave Eggers’ What is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng: A Novel on Thursday, November 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.

Published in 2006, What is the What is the fictionalized memoir of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee of the Sudanese civil war. Fleeing from his village in the mid-1980s, Deng became one of the so-called Lost Boys—children pursued by militias, government soldiers, lions, hyenas and myriad diseases, in their search for sanctuary, first in Ethiopia and then Kenya. Eventually Deng is resettled in the United States with almost 4,000 other young Sudanese men, and a very different struggle begins.

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 degrees through the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and master’s degrees 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. The university also offers a doctoral degree in library and information science. In the 2010 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report ranked Dominican University in the top 20 of Midwest master’s level universities. The magazine also ranked Dominican as one of 15 Midwest “Great Schools at a Great Price.”