Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal’s Journey from Down Under to All Over-Fast Shipping

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As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brookslonged to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so sheenlisted 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, embarkedon a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends. She found men and women whose liveshad been shaped by war and hatred, by fame and notoriety, and by the ravages of mentalillness. Intimate, moving, and often humorous, Foreign Correspondence speaks to theunquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.