“The Management of Grief,” a short story by Bharati Mukherjee (1988), was published as part of the collection The Middleman and Other Stories. These stories epitomize North America’s new “middlemen,” the “not-quites” who must negotiate “between two modes of knowledge” (p. 189). The story we are discussing here concerns the effects of the 1985 Air India bombing by Sikh terrorists on Toronto’s Indian community and specifically on the central character and narrator, Mrs. Shaila Bhave, who loses her husband and two sons in the crash.