Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over, (Paperback)

from audryh

Geraldine Brooks writes about her childhood in Sydney and longing to see the world. She recounts her long correspondence with Joanie in New York. She becomes a journalist and foreign corresondent, ...

from glade1

I enjoyed this peek at Brooks's life. She tells of her childhood feeling isolated in Sydney, longing for adventure and travel. She satisfies a little of that longing by obtaining pen pals in Americ...

from audryh

Geraldine Brooks writes about her childhood in Sydney and longing to see the world. She recounts her long correspondence with Joanie in New York. She becomes a journalist and foreign corresondent, ...

from glade1

I enjoyed this peek at Brooks's life. She tells of her childhood feeling isolated in Sydney, longing for adventure and travel. She satisfies a little of that longing by obtaining pen pals in Americ...

from banjo123

This book describes Brooks' childhood in Sydney, and her attempts to reach outside of what she perceived as a provincial childhood through a series of pen-pals. In the later part of the book, she v...