by Sonali Deraniyagala
Wave is a first person account of the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 in the Indian Ocean. Deraniyagala was visiting her native country of Sri Lanka with her family (husband Steve, their two boys Vik and Mal, and her parents) at the coastline city of Yala when the wave struck their getaway car and hotel....
A memoir of having having survived the 2004 Asian tsunami in Sri Lanka, which claimed the lives of the author's parents, two sons, and husband. More than being about loss, it's an account of healing and of moving on. The author and her family lived in London, while her parents lived in Sri Lanka, so...
3.5 starsWave is a heartbreaking true account of the author who lost her husband, two young sons and parents all in mere moments in the tsunami of 2004. The situation is unfathomable and Deraniyagala tells it with brutal honesty, sometimes uncomfortably so. She was not always likable but her grief w...
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