This chapter offers a study of the female protagonist of Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Lowland—Gauri. It talks about how Gauri’s life was influenced by the trauma of seeing her husband getting killed in front of her eyes, placing focus on her life after that episode and how it affected every other relationship after that. Set against the very political setting of the Naxalite Movement in Bengal of the 1970s, the paper will investigate how her life reflects the effects of trauma using memory studies. Gauri’s character will be shown as a “bug stuck in an amber”—a significant metaphor used by Kurt Vonnegut in his novel Slaughterhouse Five, which itself is a book about overcoming trauma. Like the protagonist of that novel Billy Pilgrim came “unstuck in time”, so did Gauri, living the reality of Bela’s idea of “kal” (past). For Gauri, her trauma, as if, had been experienced yesterday. The chapter also portrays how the other characters who witnessed the episode deal with its memory. Gauri’s in-laws, who were the other two witnesses along with her, lived all their life reacting differently to that trauma. It intends to show how Gauri never could emigrate from her past, despite immigrating into a new country.