CONTENTS

1.    Cover Page

2.    Title Page

3.    About the Cross-Cultural Memoir Series

4.    Second Title Page

5.    Copyright Page

6.    Dedication

7.    Contents Page

8.    Preface: Looking For Nadu

9.    I. Fault Lines Epigraph

10. Chapter 1: Dark Mirror

11. Chapter 2: Mirror of Ink

12. Chapter 3: Katha

13. Chapter 4: Kerala Childhood

14. Chapter 5: Crossing Borders

15. Chapter 6: Stone Eating Girl

16. Chapter 7: Khartoum Journal

17. Chapter 8: Language and Shame

18. Chapter 9: Long Fall

19. Chapter 10: Seasons of Birth

20. Chapter 11: Transit Lounge

21. Chapter 12: Rest Places or How Sense Fragments: Thoughts On Ethnicity and the Writing of Poetry

22. Chapter 13: Narrow Gate

23. II. Book of Childhood Epigraph

24. Chapter 14: Dark Mirror

25. Chapter 15: Notebook

26. Chapter 16: Writing in Fragments

27. Chapter 17: Khartoum Journal

28. Chapter 18: Our First Dead

29. Chapter 19: Home at the Edge of the World

30. Chapter 20: Shadow Work

31. Chapter 21: Lyric in a Time of Violence

32. Chapter 22: Stone-Eating Girl

33. Chapter 23: Dictionary of Desire

34. Chapter 24: Book of Childhood

35. Chapter 25: Indigo Ink

36. Acknowledgments

37. About the Author

38. About the Feminist Press

39. Also Available from the Feminist Press