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The novelist Geraldine Brooks learned a hard lesson about child care on a book tour in New Zealand when her son was just a year old. Before arriving in Wellington, she spoke by phone with a publicist there who offered to watch the boy, Nathaniel, while she appeared at events promoting 'Foreign Correspondence.' Brooks, whose latest novel 'March,' was published this month in paperback by Penguin. The novelist Geraldine Brooks learned a hard lesson about child care on a book tour when her son was just a year old. Before arriving in Wellington, she spoke by phone with a publicist there who offered to watch the boy, Nathaniel. Brooks, whose latest novel ''March,'' was published this month in paperback by Penguin.