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Ever After of Ashwin Rao: A Novel

By Padma Viswanathan

Ever After of Ashwin Rao: A Novel Contemporary literature

Ever After of Ashwin Rao: A Novel

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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 life, The Ever After 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 Air India Flight 182 from Vancouver, two suspects are—finally—on trial for the crime. Ashwin Rao, an Indian psychologist trained in North America, comes back to do a “study of comparative grief,” interviewing people who lost loved one 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 that remains unable to escape the undertow of the tragedy. As Ashwin finds himself less and less capable of providing the objective advice this particular family seeks, his surprising emotional connection to them pushes him to face his own losses. The Ever After 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
336
Release Date:
2015-06-09
Publication Date:
2015-06-09
Publisher:
Catapult
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1593766130
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
399 g
Height:
22.8 cm
Width:
15.2 cm
Thickness:
2.1 cm
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