Bibliograph

Wave, Sonali Deraniyagala

Type

Label

Wave, Sonali Deraniyagala

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Wave

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

844056781

Responsibility statement

Sonali Deraniyagala

Summary

A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of grief--of learning to live with grief--that begins in Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived.The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author's despair: how to live now that her life has been undone? Sonali Deraniyagala tells her story without artifice or sentimentality, in the stark language of unfathomable sorrow, anger, and guilt: struggling through the first months following the tragedy--someone always at her side to prevent her from harming herself, her whole being furiously clenched against the reality she can't face; and then reluctantly emerging and, over the ensuing years, slowly allowing her memory to function again--taking her back through the rich and joyous life she's mourning, from her family's..

Target audience

adult

Classification

Contributor