The most difficult part of writing fiction, she discovered, was sustaining a narrative – something she’d already grappled with as a journalist writing Nine Parts of Desire. Such a strong debut might have pushed Brooks farther down a path toward journalism as a lifelong career, but she soon began writing fiction instead as “an experiment” because she had a young child and wanted to avoid the kind of writing job that required “long, open-ended, news-driven travel.” This led to her first book, a clear-eyed and compulsively readable piece of narrative journalism called Nine Parts of Desire, which profiles the Muslim women Brooks met while working abroad. Australian writer Geraldine Brooks began her career as a journalist working as a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal where she spent six years reporting from conflict areas around Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Israel, Jordan, and elsewhere. To find success as a writer in any given field is a precious rarity to find success in more than one is a feat of near mythic proportions.
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