The Management of Grief (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Bharati Mukherjee
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The late 1980's
- Setting: Toronto, Canada; Ireland; and India
- Principal Characters: Mrs. Shaila Bhave, Kusum, Judith Templeton
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: 1980’s, Canada or Canadians, India or East Indian people, Bereavement or grief, Bombs, Disasters, Terrorism or terrorists, Airplanes or jets, Asian Americans, Ireland or Irish people, Joy or sorrow
- Locales: Ireland, Toronto, Canada, India
The Story
The narrator, Mrs. Bhave, is attempting an impossible task. She has just lost her husband and their two sons in an airplane crash caused by a terrorist bomb, and she carefully reports the interactions going on around her in an effort to understand and communicate her own experience. She seems at a great distance from her surroundings, yet anything can bring her back to the disaster and thoughts of her family. For example, while she lies in bed, a stranger making tea in her kitchen brings back the days when her sons made her breakfast.
Mrs. Bhave relives the...
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