Fault Lines: A Memoir

In this evocative memoir, an acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world.

Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Fault Lines follows one woman’s evolution as a writer at home—and in exile—across continents and cultures. Meena Alexander was born into a privileged childhood in India and grew into a turbulent adolescence in the Sudan, before moving to England and then New York City. With poetic insight and devastating honesty, Alexander explores how trauma and reco...