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From internationally acclaimed New Face of Fiction creator Padma Viswanathan, a sensational new work set among families of those who lost family members in the 1985 Air India bombing, registering the unforeseen reverberations of the tragedy in the lives of its survivors. A e book of post-9/11 life, The Ever After demonstrates that violent politics are all-too-often homegrown in North America but disregarded at our peril. In 2004, almost twenty years following the fatal bombing of Air India Air travel 182 from Vancouver, two suspects are - finally - on trial for the crime. Ashwin Rao, an Indian psychologist trained in North America, comes home to execute a "analysis of comparative grief", interviewing people who lost family members in the episode. What he neglects to mention is the fact he, too, experienced family members who passed on on the plane. Then, to his pleasure and dread, he becomes embroiled in the lives of 1 family that remains unable to escape the undertow of the tragedy. As Ashwin sees himself less and less capable of providing the objective advice this specific family looks for, his surprising emotional connection to them pushes him to face his own losses. The Ever After imagines the sustained emotional and political consequences of a real-life act of terror, confronting what we might figure out how to live with and what we can live without.
