The Management of Grief

This story was incredibly depressing. I felt that the beginning was very hard to keep up with but it seems that the narrator's lost her husband and two sons. She and her friends are immigrants living in Canada (indian-immigrants) and trying to figure out the best way to deal with their losses. There is a contemplation between using culture or not as a vice. The narrator gives good examples and images of low-point instances for the characters. They spend a lot of time convincing themselves that their relatives are still alive and they even contemplate life. But they make it through with each other. I thought that although this was written very nicely, it was entirely too sad for me! The whole story was very gray.