Geraldine Brooks is the author of four novels, the Pulitzer Prize–winning March and the international bestsellers Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders. She has also written the acclaimed nonfiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Her most recent novel, Caleb’s Crossing, was the winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Christianity Today Book Award, and was a finalist for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. Born and raised in Australia, she lives on Martha’s Vineyard with her husband, the author Tony Horwitz.
Praise for People of the Book:
“There’s romance between Brooks and the world, and her writing is
as full of heart and curiosity as it is intelligence and
judgement.”
—The Boston Globe
“Intelligent, thoughtful, gracefully written, and original . . .
Brooks tells a believable and engaging story.”
—The Washington Post
“Intense, gripping . . . People of the Book, like her Pulitzer
Prize–winning previous novel March, is a tour de force that
delivers a reverberating lesson gleaned from history. . . . It’s a
brilliant, innately suspenseful structure, and one that allows
Brooks to show off her remarkable aptitude for assimilating
research and conveying a wide range of settings. Also on full
display is her keen sense of dramatic pacing.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“[A] marvelously intertwined narrative, with one strand tied to the
contemporary world and the other leading us back into European
history, into wars and inquisitions and family tragedies, all of
this making up avidly narrated, powerfully emotional quest.”
—The Dallas Morning News
“Richly imagined and at times almost unbearably exciting. . . . An
ambitious book, a pleasure to read, and wholly successful in its
attempt to give a sense of how miraculous, unlikely, and ultimately
binding the history of objects can be.”
—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
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