Wave

Author  Sonali Deraniyagala
Wave

The memoir everyone has been talking about and moved by now in paperback. Universally acclaimed around the world and a national bestseller in North America, Wave is an extraordinarily brave, beautifully written memoir of loss by a survivor of the 2004 tsunami. About loss, it becomes a redemptive book about the power of love. For readers of literary non-fiction, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, Cheryl Strayed's Wild.
     On December 26, Boxing Day, Sonali Deraniyagala, her English husband, her parents, her two young sons, and a close friend were ending Christmas vacation on the south coast of Sri Lanka when a wave suddenly overtook them. She was only to learn later that this was a tsunami that devastated coastlines…