The Chautauqua Book Club announces dates and titles
The title to be discussed will be “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” by Trevor Noah. Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth.
The Chautauqua Book Club at the Dover Public Library has announced its schedule of upcoming discussion titles and dates. The group will meet next on Thursday, Jan. 30 at noon at the Dover Public Library, 525 N. Walnut St., Dover.
The title to be discussed will be “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood”
by Trevor Noah. Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of
The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth.
Noah was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Noah was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away.
Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Noah and his mother set forth on an adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.
Founded in 1878 at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle is one of the oldest continuous book-discussion groups in the United States.
Each month at the Dover Public Library, a different title is selected and discussed. New members are always welcome. Upcoming discussion titles and dates are as follows:
Jan. 30, “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” by Trevor Noah; Feb. 27, “My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel” by Oyinkan Braithwaite; March 26, “The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives” by Viet Thanh Nguyen; April 30, “Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore” by Elizabeth Rush; and May 28, “The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: A Novel” by Kim Michele Richardson.
For more information or to reserve a copy of the book, visit the website at www.doverlibrary.org or call the Dover Public Library at 330-343-6123.