Publisher's description:
Bharati Mukherjee has long been known not only for her elegant, evocative prose but also for her characters- influenced by ancient customs and traditions but also very much rooted in modern times. In The Tree Bride, the narrator, Tara Chatterjee (whom readers will remember from Desirable Daughters), picks up the story of an East Bengali ancestor. According to legend, at the age of five Tara Lata married a tree and eventually emerged as a nationalist freedom fighter. In piecing together her ancestor's transformation from a docile Bengali Brahmin girl-child into an impassioned organizer of resistance against the British Raj, the contemporary narrator discovers and lays claim to unacknowledged elements in her 'American' identity. Although the story of the Tree Bride is central, the drama surrounding the narrator, a divorced woman trying to get back with her husband, moves the novel back and forth through time and across continents.
About the Author
Bharati Mukherjee is the author of six novels, two non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories, including The Middleman and Other Stories, for which she won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a professor of English at the University of California Berkeley and lives in Berkeley, California.

This book is now on its way to Dancesports in Tasmania who chose it from the Global Village VBB. Hope it'e enjoyed!

Thank you Eicuthbertson - I'm sure I will enjoy this one, I have read Desirable Daugthers earlier this year - so the scene is set.

this was a slower read than I expected, I liked parts of the book but there were many sections that described history and these were hard going. The parts that were telling of Tara Chatterjees current life moved along and were the best parts of the book.

finally on its way to the next reader

Thanks for sending this, a slip was waiting for me when I got back today after a couple of weeks at home.

On the bookcase.