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
Correspondencespeaks to the unquiet heart of every girl who has
ever yearned to become a woman of the world.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
