by Sonali Deraniyagala
It was a wave that took everything that Sonali Deraniyagala had - her two young sons, her husband, her mother, and her father - and left her spinning in the mud. Deraniyagala had never heard of a tsunami before the 2004 disaster that changed her life forever, but it is now all she knows. Her stunnin...
For three years I've tried to indelibly imprint they are dead on my consciousness, afraid of slipping up and forgetting, of thinking they are alive. Coming out of that lapse, however momentary, will be more harrowing than the constant knowing, surely. Wave was heartbreakingly beautiful. I initially ...
shock me like an electric eel..... Best memoir in years. Nonstarter. This book follows a family's vacation and the devistation that leads to the death of many of the author's family members. It is a knawingly realistic venture into loss, rekindling self, and not moving on, as much as holding the han...
A powerful, haunting memoir of loss and grief.
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