Wave was my attempt to combat the fear of the tsunami and I think facing such an intimate description of the trauma actually helped me. Sonali Deraniyagala’s book begins with a shock – the wave takes her husband, two sons and her parents. The following chapters describe her mourning – denial, suicide attempts, anger, sadness, despair. It is a book filled with cruel pain, from under which calmness slowly begins to emerge.
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