The Management of Grief | Summary
Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief" opens as the protagonist Shaila Bhave watches women moving around her kitchen quietly. The mood is somber for only the day before, Bhave's husband and two sons were killed in a plane explosion. Shaila talks with Dr. and Mrs. Sharma. One of the Sharma sons reports to them that officials are still uncertain about the explosion, "saying it could be an accident or a terrorist bomb." Most of the Indians there suspect that the plane was destroyed by a Sikh bomb. Shaila sits on the stairs talking with Kusum, her neighbor whose husband and daughter also died...
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