Ever After of Ashwin Rao, The

Almost twenty years after the Air India bombing, South Asian psychologist Ashwin Rao returns to Canada, where he had trained, to attend the trial of two of the suspected terrorists and undertake a study on comparative grief. He travels across the country interviewing those who lost loved ones—hiding his own personal loss—and becomes attached to one special family. This political novel invites readers to examine hidden prejudices, personal grief, historical injustices, and Canada’s worst mass murder. A complex and challenging novel for grade 11-12 students, it is suitable for literary circles, novel, cultural, and literature studies.