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One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously clenched against a reality that she cannot face and cannot deny; and then, over the ensuing years, as she emerges reluctantly, slowly allowing her memory to take her back through the rich and joyous life she’s mourning, from her family’s home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo; all the while learning the difficult balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and the need to keep her family, somehow, still alive within her.
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Summary
Summary
A Time Magazine Top 10 Book of the Decade in Nonfiction
A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2013
A 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
A 2013 New York Times Book Review Notable Book
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2013 in Nonfiction
A People Magazine Best Book of 2013
A 2013 Salon Magazine Best Book
One of Newsday’s Favorite Books of the Year for 2013
A 2013 Christian Science Monitor Book of the Year for Nonfiction
Winner of the 2013 Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Nonfiction
An Barnes & Noble Best Book for March 2013
A Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2013 for Nonfiction
An Amazon Top 100 Book of 2013
An Amazon Best Book of the Month
Among shortlisted titles for National Book Critics Circle Awards, 2013
One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir, she describes those first horrifying moments and her long journey since. She has written an engrossing, unsentimental, beautifully poised account: as she struggles through the first months following the tragedy, furiously clenched against a reality that she cannot face and cannot deny; and then, over the ensuing years, as she emerges reluctantly, slowly allowing her memory to take her back through the rich and joyous life she’s mourning, from her family’s home in London, to the birth of her children, to the year she met her English husband at Cambridge, to her childhood in Colombo; all the while learning the difficult balance between the almost unbearable reminders of her loss and the need to keep her family, somehow, still alive within her.
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Available Formats : | Digital Download |
Category: | Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography |
Runtime: | 5.40 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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