Foreign Correspondence

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.