Rochester Arts & Lectures

Geraldine Brooks
Underwritten by OcuSight Eye Care Center
November 12, 2009

Geraldine Brooks is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, internationally bestselling novel March, a retelling of Louisa May Alcott’s classic Little Women from the point of view of Mr. March, the absent father who goes off to war. Her first novel, Year of Wonders (also an international bestseller), was set in 1666, and follows a young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul when the plague suddenly strikes her village. Brooks’ most recent bestseller, People of the Book is an intricate, ambitious novel that traces the five-century journey of a rare illuminated Hebrew manuscript across the world. She is also the author of Foreign Correspondence, a travel memoir about her adult quest to find the pen pals that enriched her childhood. Her first book of non-fiction, Nine Parts of Desire, was based on her experiences among the Muslim women of the Middle East, and is an international bestseller as well.

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