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Foreign Correspondence

1999210 pagesDoubleday

Synopsis

Geraldine Brooks recounts her experiences as a young Australian woman who exchanged letters with pen pals from around the world, a practice that shaped her understanding of different cultures and her eventual career as a foreign correspondent. The book weaves together her youthful correspondence with her later travels, exploring how these early connections influenced her adult life and journalistic pursuits.

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Geraldine Brooks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author known for her historical novels, including Year of Wonders and March. Her background as a journalist also shaped non-fiction works like Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women and Foreign Correspondence.

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Book cover of Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey From Down Under to All Over
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