Geraldine Brooks of Sydney, Australia longs to discover what life is all about the world beyond her backyard, two thousand miles below the equator. Her pen pals offer her a window to that world. Twenty years later Brooks is an award-winning foreign correspondent. Back in Australia to attend to her dying father, she stumbles onto the old letters and embarks on a human treasure hunt for her pen pals to retrieve her own lost memories of the girl she once was. This intimate, moving memoir speaks to the heart of-every girl who ...
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Geraldine Brooks of Sydney, Australia longs to discover what life is all about the world beyond her backyard, two thousand miles below the equator. Her pen pals offer her a window to that world. Twenty years later Brooks is an award-winning foreign correspondent. Back in Australia to attend to her dying father, she stumbles onto the old letters and embarks on a human treasure hunt for her pen pals to retrieve her own lost memories of the girl she once was. This intimate, moving memoir speaks to the heart of-every girl who has yearned to become a woman of the world.
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