Anna Marie Quindlen is the Author of “A Quilt of a Country” written in 2001. She was born on July 8, 1952. She is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.
Her New York Times column, “Public and Private”, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. She began her journalism career in 1974 as a reporter for the New York Post. Between 1977 and 1994 she wrote several posts at The New York Times. Her semi-autobiographical novel “One True Thing” written in 1994 served as the basis for the 1998 film starring Meryl Streep and Renée Zellweger.
The text of “A Quilt of a Country” was written in response of the “9/11” incident. It explains racism in our country. It shows that people aren't so different after all. It explains how our country bonds together when having enemies. However, it also states how we as a people are still discriminant. It depicts how the different types of people from different nations come together and create a multi-cultural population in the USA.
the connotative meaning of fault lines in this excerpt expresses:
something powerful and threatening
