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Twenty-hour work days

it claimed nearly fifty thousand lives -- more than gunshots and car crashes combined

Or as she gets closer to discovering the truth about both Charlie and Anna

Analogy-making

The Tree Bride the grave of empires For help in this questNational Book Critics Circle Award winner 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