Foreign Correspondence

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Summary: Foreign Correspondence - an Australian childhood.
Review: What does the world look like from a backyard 2000 miles belowthe equator? In Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks grows up longingto find out. This is her memoir of how she did it with a little help from her global pen pals. That's the short of it! The long of it is a lively, humorous ever-so-familiar memoir of a girl's family life in a working-class suburb Down Under during the 1950s & 1960s. Absorbing & thought-provoking. As a life-time pen-pal this book brought back many memories!...