num_pages: 384
description: From internationally acclaimed New Face of Fiction author Padma Viswanathan a stunning new work set among families of those who lost loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing registering the unexpected reverberations of this tragedy in the lives of its survivors. A book of post-9/11 Canada The Ever After of Ashwin Rao demonstrates that violent politics are all-too-often homegrown in North America but ignored at our peril. In 2004 almost 20 years after the fatal bombing of an Air India flight from Vancouver 2 suspects--finally--are on trial for the crime. Ashwin Rao an Indian psychologist trained in Canada comes back to do a study of comparative grief interviewing people who lost loved ones in the attack. What he neglects to mention is that he too had family members who died on the plane. Then to his delight and fear he becomes embroiled in the lives of one family caught in the undertow of the tragedy and privy to their secrets. This surprising emotional connection sparks him to confront his own losses. The Ever After of Ashwin Rao imagines the lasting emotional and political consequences of a real-life act of terror confronting what we might learn to live with and what we can live without.
language: English
title: The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
publisher: Random House Canada