Wave

A Memoir

• Author(s): Sonali Deraniyagala,
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Pages: 240
• ISBN_10: 0307962709
  ISBN_13: 9780307962706
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs , Biography & Autobiography / Women , Nature / Natural Disasters ,

Description:... NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • One woman's searing account of losing her entire family in a tsunami. 

“The most exceptional book about grief I’ve ever read.... As unsparing as they come, but also defiantly flooded with light.... Extraordinary.” —Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review


In 2004, at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala and her family—parents, husband, sons—were swept away by a tsunami. Only Sonali survived to tell their tale. This is her account of the nearly incomprehensible event and its aftermath.