Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala • 2013
Devastation Rating
grief memoir disaster family
Our Take
Deraniyagala lost her husband, both sons, and her parents in the 2004 tsunami. This slim memoir documents survival when survival is the worst possible outcome. The prose is spare because excess would be obscene. You read it knowing no one should have to write this book.
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