BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//DC Hoos - ECPv6.3.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:DC Hoos X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://alumni.virginia.edu/dchoos X-WR-CALDESC:Events for DC Hoos REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190114T203000 DTSTAMP:20240328T101037 CREATED:20190102T020023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190102T020023Z UID:2553-1547492400-1547497800@alumni.virginia.edu SUMMARY:January Book Club DESCRIPTION:Monday\, January 14th\n7:00pm – 8:30pm\nSilver Diner\n(Clarendon) \nFree \nWe will be reading Trevor Noah’s “Born a Crime”. \nBook Summary: “Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor 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\, Trevor 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\, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure\, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. \nBorn a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless\, rebellious\, and fervently religious mother—his teammate\, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty\, violence\, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. \nThe stories collected here are by turns hilarious\, dramatic\, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times\, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping\, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school\, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time\, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional\, unconditional love.” – Amazon editor \n  \nFor more information\, please contact Simay (CLAS ‘14) and Jess (CLAS ’14) at uvabookclub@dchoos.org URL:https://alumni.virginia.edu/dchoos/event/january-book-club-7/ LOCATION:Silver Diner\, 3200 Wilson Boulevard\, Arlington\, VA\, 22201\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR