<p>In trauma-exposed elderly individuals, late-life stressors such as the bereavement of family members or loved ones can reactivate earlier traumatic experiences. This paper examines the psychological aspects of late-life trauma and the reconstruction of identity in Geetanjali Shree’s <i>Tomb of Sand </i>(2018/2021). Focusing on the ageing process of the main character, the study explores how widowhood serves as a catalyst for reactivating memories from her past and presents life review as a crucial psychological process through which unresolved conflicts are revisited and reinterpreted. The study adopts a qualitative methodology based on close textual analysis and narrative analysis, drawing on Robert N. Butler’s Life Review Theory and McAdams’s Narrative Identity Theory within the context of Narrative Gerontology and Critical Gerontology. The study examines how late-life bereavement triggers the resurface of unresolved memories of the Partition of India, initiating a process of life review and narrative self-reconstruction. The resurgence of traumatic memory is negotiated through movement and embodiment, leading to agency formed in later life. Tomb of Sand reimagines later life as a space in which memory, identity, and movement interact with unresolved trauma, impacting the ongoing process of self-reconstruction. The novel constructs later life as an active site for creating new meaning and uses narrative actions to create new understandings of pain and to reconstruct the individual’s experience.</p>