Author Visit by Geraldine Brooks: Final Program of the 2012 One Book, One Region Season

Geraldine Brooks, author of Caleb’s Crossing, eastern Connecticut’s 2012 One Book, One Region choice, will appear at Fitch High School, 101 Groton Long Point Road, Groton, CT, on September 18, at 7 p.m.  Bank Square Books will provide books for the event and a book signing will follow Brooks’ presentation.  All are invited to this free event which was made possible by a grant from CT Humanities Council.

Geraldine Brooks is the author of six books, including the novel Year of Wonders and the nonfiction work Nine Parts of Desire; her second novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2006.  Earlier in her career, Brooks was a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and was stationed in Bosnia, Somalia and the Middle East.  Born in Australia, she currently divides her time between Martha's Vineyard and Sydney.