This book is really wonderful. If you like multigenerational family stories, if you like historical fiction, if you like learning about times and places in history you haven’t read about before, I think you will like A History of Burning. This story starts in 1898 with a boy (Pirbhai) who is taken from India to Uganda to work on a railway for the British, and proceeds to follow his children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, and their lives in Uganda and Toronto. The characters in this book are very well fleshed out and I really grew to care about each of them. There is a thread of loss/misplacement, and the silence that comes with family secrets that persists through the generations, but still a feeling of hope. The ending was perfect. Very happy I read this book!