num_pages: 336
description: Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Meena Alexander’s memoir traces her evolution as a postcolonial writer from a privileged childhood in India to a turbulent adolescence in the Sudan and then to England and New York City. In this tenth-anniversary edition of Fault Lines , this Alexander challenges the assumptions of life as a South Asian American woman writer in a post-9-11 world. With poetic insight and an honesty that will galvanize readers—both familiar and new—Alexander reveals her difficult recovery from a long-buried childhood trauma that revolutionizes the entire landscape of her of her family, of her writing process and the meaning of memoir, and of her very self, now and before.
language: English
title: Fault Lines: A Memoir
titlecomplete: Fault Lines: A Memoir (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)
genres: Memoir, Poetry, Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 80
publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY