Now in paperback, from award-winning writer Bharati Mukherjee, the acclaimed novel that bridges modern America and historical India. According to legend, at the age of five Tara Lata married a tree and eventually emerged as a nationalist freedom fighter. Piecing together her ancestor's transformation from a docile Bengali Brahmin girl-child into an impassioned organiser of resistance against the British Raj, the contemporary narrator Tara discovers and lays claim to unacknowledged elements in her American' identity.'