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.