Wave: A Memoir

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 A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century 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.