<DIV><P>Passionate, fierce, and lyrical, Meena Alexander&rsquo;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 <I>Fault Lines</I>, 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&mdash;both familiar and new&mdash;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.</p><P><B>Meena Alexander</B> is a poet and professor of English and creative writing at Hunter College and the City University of New York.</p></DIV>