Wave Wave

Wave

A Memoir

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Publisher 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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2013
March 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
240
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
6.5
MB

Customer Reviews

Soozin P. ,

So Brave

Well done. The pace and the details were just right. The lives fascinating. Every aspect of this experience was pretty clearly described, and not overly dramatized. It felt like this is the only way she could relay it. But I’m not entirely sure if she held back or I did in evoking my full emotions. Maybe both. She definitely has my utmost compassion and respect.

NotShakespeare ,

Very moving

Beautifully written book about loss and how trauma affects memory. Incredible story.

Emotional In Florida ,

Wave

This is now my third attempt at doing this because I can never remember my Apple password.

Last week, I explained to one of my fellow church members that we hear too much of the man made disasters of today and that we sometimes forget about the "Natural" disasters that have befallen our world, ie. the loss of some 250,000 souls lost to the 2004 Sonami.

Sonali Deraniyagala, you have showed us the ultimate in loss and let us share in your grief process. Your writing ended with a reality that your role as a daughter, wife mother and friend brought you full circle to you continuing to live with you reaching out to your loved ones that you lost in a most natural way. This was centered around your most important role as wife and mother to two beautiful boys.

Our past is part of our present and you will always be the friend, daughter, wife and mother thru your past life connections and your book shows that life will continue to be lived and experienced thru those heart connections.

God speed and Blessings to you,
Leslie

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