50 points! Read the following excerpt from "The Four Hundred Year Old Woman" by Bharati Mukherjee and answer the following question.

"I have found my way in the United States after many transit stops. The unglimpsed phantom Faridpur, and the all too real Manhattan have merged as "desh." I am an American. I am an American writer, in the American mainstream, trying to extend it."

What is the meaning of the allusion unglimpsed phantom Faridpur?

A.) her family's homeland that she has never seen
B.) another town near Manhattan
C.) the ghost of her homeland calling her back
D.) her vivid memory of where she was born