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Wave
by Sonali Deraniyagala
Read Harder Challenge #5: A book about a natural disaster.
I would not ordinarily read a book about a natural disaster. That's the point of the challenge, of course. This book is about what happens to a person when she has lost everything. How do you go on in the face of something so unspeakably tragic? Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, parents, and two young sons to a tsunami. This stark, beautifully brutal book is about what happened next. Reading it feels, not voyeuristic, but like bearing witness.
I would not ordinarily read a book about a natural disaster. That's the point of the challenge, of course. This book is about what happens to a person when she has lost everything. How do you go on in the face of something so unspeakably tragic? Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, parents, and two young sons to a tsunami. This stark, beautifully brutal book is about what happened next. Reading it feels, not voyeuristic, but like bearing witness.