Showing Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over by Geraldine Brooks
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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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Important places
Nazareth (39)New York (7,400)
Saint-Martin-de-la-Brasque (1)
St.-Martin-de-la-Brasque (1)
Sydney (738)
Counties
New York (8,072)Regions
New South Wales (1,443)Vaucluse (56)
New Jersey (1,469)
New York (9,763)
HaZafon (77)
Tel Aviv (87)
Countries
France (7,260)Israel (802)
Australia (6,814)
United States (64,950)
Other geographical areas
Levant Coast (27)Murray-Darling Basin (123)
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (466)
Western Asia (1,597)
Australia And New Zealand (4,260)
Oceania (8,442)
North Atlantic Ocean (8,812)