The Ever After of Ashwin Rao - Softcover

"This often droll, fiercely intelligent novel with its cat's-cradle of a plot challenges the twin deadly lures of religious fundamentalism and racism, revealing the learning and unlearning at the core of the immigrant experience." Scotiabank Giller Prize jury citation
"Provocative and compelling." Chatelaine
"This book illuminates the national tragedy of Flight 182 and the ways in which loss change family landscapes." Toronto Star
"More than a memorial to the victims and the bereaved, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao charts how people navigate their anguish." The Georgia Straight
"An important book--one that deserves to find international recognition. Pondering our unexamined prejudices might be deeply uncomfortable but it is absolutely necessary." The Globe and Mail

PADMA VISWANATHAN is a Canadian writer, playwright and journalist, whose debut novel, The Toss of a Lemon, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book Award (Canada and the Caribbean) and the PEN USA Fiction Award, and published to international acclaim. Her work has received many awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and support from the Canada Council, as well as residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Banff Centre and the Sacatar Foundation. Her hometown is Edmonton, Alberta, though she is presently living with her husband, Geoffrey Brock, a poet and translator, and their 2 children in Fayetteville, Arkansas.