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A native of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks grew up in its inner-west suburb of Ashfield.Her father, Lawrie Brooks, was an American big-band singer who was stranded in Adelaide on a tour of Australia when his manager absconded with the band's pay; he decided to remain in Australia, and became a newspaper sub-editor.
Brooks worked for the Cairo bureau of The Wall Street Journal. Her assistant was named Sahar, [4] and she worked as Brooks's translator. Sahar had been educated in the West, [7] was young, [4] and had a secular mindset. Brooks was inspired to make the book when Sahar began wearing an Islamic veil, [7] and began espousing religious ideologies. [4]
March (2005) is a novel by Geraldine Brooks. It is a novel that retells Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women from the point of view of Alcott's protagonists' absent father. Brooks has inserted the novel into the classic tale, revealing the events surrounding March's absence during the American Civil War in 1862.
The nonfiction work is an examination of Brooks' time with Muslim women while covering the Middle East. Her memoir, "Foreign Correspondence," published in 1997, earned her a Nita Kibble Literary ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Geraldine Brooks’ “Horse,” a novel about race and forgotten history, and Robert Samuels’ and Toluse Olorunnipa’s “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the ...
"Horse," by Geraldine Brooks, explores the unwritten history of America’s most famous racehorse—and how far we still have to go in confronting systemic racism. Geraldine Brooks on Racing—and ...
The book's Afterword briefly explains which parts of the novel are based on fact and which are imaginary. Geraldine Brooks wrote an article for The New Yorker that provides more details about the Sarajevo Haggadah and its real-life rescuers, especially Dervis Korkut, who hid it from the Nazis. It also explains that Lola, the young Jewish ...
The Secret Chord is a 2015 novel about King David by Australian American author Geraldine Brooks. [1] Plot summary. Told from the point of view of the prophet Nathan, ...