Fault Lines: A Memoir (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series)

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 memory: of her family, of her writing process and the meaning of memoir, and of her very self, now and before.

• Author
• Meena Alexander, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 336

• Publisher
• The Feminist Press at CUNY

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781558614543

• Genres
• memoir, biography

• Release date
• 2003