The canon of Anglophone literary works from India’s Northeast has evolved as an invaluable repository representing the collective memory of a region which has witnessed persistent turmoil and conflicts. The abundance of traumatic episodes, engineered by the turbulent socio-political history of the region, has been a recurrent theme in the literary writings from the Northeast which essentially seem to be mediating between the process of remembering and mourning traumatic events. In this light, the northeastern writers’ encounter with traumatic events, especially within their fictional narratives, may be interpreted as acts of ‘bearing witness’ to the collective traumatic past, along with offering a powerful mode of access to history and collective memory. However, unlike Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and Nagaland, which have witnessed a rich trove of creative writings emerging from the turbulent period of violence, the state of Mizoram has been somewhat reticent in terms of thematizing the same in literature until recent times. In this context, Malsawmi Jacob’s Zorami: A Redemption Song (Jacob, Zorami a Redemption Song, Morph Books, 2015) is perceived as the inaugural Mizo fictional work in English, primarily dealing with the traumatic period of Mizo history, colloquially known as the ‘Rambuai’, which spanned nearly two decades. Leveraging the wealth of research conducted by the trauma theorists, this paper, therefore, attempts to examine Malsawmi Jacob’s novel, probing the various manifestation of violence perpetrated by the state and non-state actors that has ramifications beyond individual impact, culminating in a collective and cultural trauma.