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Foreign Correspondence by Geraldine Brooks
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Foreign Correspondence

A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over

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Narrator Geraldine Brooks

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Length 7 hours 20 minutes
Language English
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As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an award-winning foreign correspondent, embarked on a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends. She found men and women whose lives had been shaped by war and hatred, by fame and notoriety, and by the ravages of mental illness. Intimate, moving, and often humorous, Foreign Correspondence speaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.

Geraldine Brooksย is the author of four novels, the Pulitzer Prizeโ€“winningย Marchand the international bestsellersย Calebโ€™s Crossing,ย People of the Book, andย Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction worksย Nine Parts of Desireย andย Foreign Correspondence.ย Her most recent novel,ย Calebโ€™s Crossing, was the winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and theย Christianity TodayBook Award, and was a finalist for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Marthaโ€™s Vineyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz.

Geraldine Brooksย is the author of four novels, the Pulitzer Prizeโ€“winningย Marchand the international bestsellersย Calebโ€™s Crossing,ย People of the Book, andย Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction worksย Nine Parts of Desireย andย Foreign Correspondence.ย Her most recent novel,ย Calebโ€™s Crossing, was the winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and theย Christianity TodayBook Award, and was a finalist for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Marthaโ€™s Vineyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz.

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