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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over by Geraldine Brooks
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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over

by Geraldine Brooks

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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, and locates the pen-pals of her youth. Gives a vivid picture of Australia in the 60's and 70's. ( )
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... nothing is more sweet in the end than

country and parents ever,

even when far away one lives in a fertile place...

- The Odyssey
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To the memory of Lawrie, and to Gloria
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It is a hot spring day and I am in the basement of my parents’ house in Sydney, sorting through tea chests.
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Important placesSydney, New South Wales, Australia, New Jersey, USA, Tel Aviv, Israel, Nazareth, Israel, St. Martin de la Brasque, France, New York, New York, USA
Epigraph... nothing is more sweet in the end than
country and parents ever,
even when far away one lives in a fertile place...
- The Odyssey
DedicationTo the memory of Lawrie, and to Gloria
First wordsIt is a hot spring day and I am in the basement of my parents’ house in Sydney, sorting through tea chests.
Last words(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0385482698, Hardcover)

The leap between dreamy child living in a provincial Australian neighborhood and journalist hopscotching through war zones is massive. In Foreign Correspondence, Geraldine Brooks (Nine Parts of Desire) unravels the rope that pulled and tugged her toward adventure and away from "a very small world" where her family had no car and had never boarded a plane or placed an international phone call. "I'd never imagined myself as someone whose packing list would include a chador, much less a bulletproof vest," she says. Preserved in the cellar of her parents' home in Sydney were letters Brooks had received as a teenager from several international pen pals, around whom she spun a romantic view of the world. Wondering about the reality of their lives and the progression of her own, she tracks them down in France, Japan, the Middle East, and New York. En route, Brooks delivers a wonderful meditation on childhood and adolescence lashed with rich details and quirky humor. Speaking of a current pen pal, she notes: "Raed, from the West Bank, stoned my car in 1987; now he writes to tell me how he's faring in college."

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