Anita Rau Badami lamented the unwillingness in current Canadian public culture to remember the 1985 Air India tragedy. This novel, her third and recent, addresses this silence_ The novel details the context Of the tragedy and spells out the extent Of the loss so that Canadian readers can grapple With this moment and appreciate that the tragedy. like the people involved in it, was Canadian. It is well-researched and well-crafted, tells a compelling story with rich and poignant ironies, and gives us heartbreaking. mind-numbing portrayals of the human cost of politically motivated disasters. The novel is structured as thrcc women's stories: the woman-centric focus on the domestic quotidian life of common people olTers a gendered critique of how a public catastrophe affects the everyday. Its background consists of traumatic milestones of Sikh history which include the 1947 partition and the anti-Sikh riots Of 1984 in India. T Ine novel connects these events from a Canadian/diasporic perspective. bracketing them within two historical phenomena connected to Sikhs in Canada: the memory Of Komagata Maru and the 1985 Air India bombing. It tells Canadian readers a story they need to hear and situates Badami as a Canadian writer in her choice and presentation of material. Because the novel largely narrates the Story Of the global Sikh community, the standard critique Of the diasporization of the history of the global South nccds to be nuanced. As the novel suggests, the Sikhs in India and in Canada have a strong sense Of shared history and