{"product_id":"foreign-correspondence-isbn-9780385483735","title":"Foreign Correspondence","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eForeign Correspondence \u003c\/i\u003espeaks to the   unquiet heart of every girl who has ever yearned to become a woman of the world.\"Geraldine Brooks' talent is unique: she combines the hardest-hitting reporting with a true writer's sensitivity and an empathy rare for anyone. In \u003ci\u003eForeign Correspondence\u003c\/i\u003e she trains her lucid gaze on the turmoil of female adolescence and by doing so brings us a dazzling range of insights that extend beyond introspection to raise questions about national identity in an increasingly global culture.\"--Naomi Wolf, author of \u003ci\u003ePromiscuities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeraldine Brooks\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four novels, the Pulitzer Prize–winning \u003ci\u003eMarch\u003c\/i\u003eand the international bestsellers \u003ci\u003eCaleb’s Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePeople of the Book\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eYear of Wonders\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works \u003ci\u003eNine Parts of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eForeign Correspondence\u003c\/i\u003e. Her most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eCaleb’s Crossing\u003c\/i\u003e, was the winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and the \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003c\/i\u003eBook Award, and was a finalist for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz.","brand":"Anchor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305000423653,"sku":"NP9780385483735","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385483735.jpg?v=1767727562","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/foreign-correspondence-isbn-9780385483735","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}