Sunday, April 13, 2014

Novel explores Air India tragedy

The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, by Padma Viswanathan, is a story based on fictional characters telling how the surviving friends and relatives coped with this loss.
Ashwin Rao is an established Indian psychologist. After nearly 20 years have passed, two suspects are finally on trial for their roles in the bombing. Ashwin decides to visit Canada to meet with some of the families and study how they are coping with their grief.
He quickly becomes attached and entangled in one family's lives and secrets. But what Ashwin isn't quick to reveal is that he also experienced great loss during the bombing.
While trying to help others deal with their emotions, he ends up knocking down some of the walls he has built around himself.
Padma Viswanathan is a Canadian writer. This is her second novel.
12/04/14 Shonna Bechtel/Cambridge Times
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