Description

One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Season, a Newsday Top 10 Publications pick, a People magazine Top 10 pick, a Great Scans Best Book of the Season, and a Kirkus Best Non-Fiction BookIn 2004, in a seaside resort on the coast of Sri-Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala and her family—parents, spouse, sons—were swept out with a tsunami. Only Sonali survived to inform their story. This really is her account of the almost incomprehensible function and its aftermath.