{"id":810,"date":"2012-08-15T11:48:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T15:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/hvcc-book-club-meeting-for-september\/"},"modified":"2012-08-15T11:48:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T15:48:37","slug":"hvcc-book-club-meeting-for-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/hvcc-book-club-meeting-for-september\/","title":{"rendered":"HVCC Book Club meeting for September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The HVCC Book Club will meet Wednesday, Sept. 19 fron noon to 12:50 in the Dwight Marvin Library&#8217;s new Multipurpose Room. The MPR is now located on the second floor of the library. We will start the year with a discussion of <em>Zeitoun<\/em> by Dave Eggers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Zeitoun<\/em> is\u00a0 the true story of a family caught between the war on terror and Hurricane Katrina.\u00a0 <em>Zeitoun<\/em>, a middle-aged Syrian-\u00adAmerican father and owner of a successful painting and contracting firm, decides to stay and watch over his business while his wife Kathy evacuates with their four young children. <em>Zeitoun<\/em> is mistaken for a terrorist and subjected to a series of humiliations, locked in a cage, then a prison, all the while without being charged with anything or even being allowed to make a phone call to his wife.<\/p>\n<p>To read the NY Times review of <em>Zeitou<\/em>n go to <a title=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/16\/books\/review\/Egan-t.html?pagewanted=all\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/16\/books\/review\/Egan-t.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/16\/books\/review\/Egan-t.html?pagewanted=all<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The HVCC Book Club welcomes students, staff, faculty and community members. Please join us and feel free to bring your lunch!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To CHRONICLE STAFF:<\/p>\n<p>Could you run some version of this\u00a0 weekly until Sept. 19?\u00a0 Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:48:37 +0000 by\u00a0m.bolton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The HVCC Book Club will meet Wednesday, Sept. 19 fron noon to 12:50 in the Dwight Marvin Library&#8217;s new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}