Wave
- ISBN-10
- 184408907X
- ISBN-13
- 9781844089079
- Series
- Wave
- Category
- Bereavement
- Pages
- 213
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Virago Press
- Author
- Sonali Deraniyagala
Description
A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of learning to live with grief--that begins in Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived.
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