Padma Viswanathan

From internationally acclaimed non-fiction author Padma Viswanathan, a stunning new work that explores the ways in which great tragedy continues to ripple out into the lives of its survivors, set among the families of those who lost loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing. In 2004, almost twenty-years after the fatal bombing of an Air India flight from Vancouver, Ashwin Rao, an Indian psychologist trained in Canada, comes back to do what he calls...

Padma Viswanathan was staying on a houseboat on Vancouver Island when she struck up a friendship with a warm-hearted, working-class queer man named Phillip. Their lives were so different it seemed unlikely to Padma that their relationship would last after she returned to her usual life. But, that week, Phillip told her a story from his childhood that kept them connected for more than twenty years. Phillip was the son of a severe, abusive man named...