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Wave
by Sonali Deraniyagala
What I learned from this book: Losing one's children, husband, and parents in a tsunami is terrible.
What I didn't learn from this book: How one moves past that loss and begins reassembling one's life.
It seems a bit uncharitable to be picky about this, given the losses that the author suffered, and the bravery that it must have taken to write it all down for the world to see. What's missing, though, is any sense of how she got from there to here. Yes, she lost her entire family and was alternatively suicidal, catatonic, or manic with grief. Totally understandable. So how did she move from that stage to the point, eight years later, where she could participate in life again, inhabit her family's house, see family friends, and so on.
The descriptions of her grief were searing, honest, and compelling, but that is only half the story, as far as I'm concerned.
What I didn't learn from this book: How one moves past that loss and begins reassembling one's life.
It seems a bit uncharitable to be picky about this, given the losses that the author suffered, and the bravery that it must have taken to write it all down for the world to see. What's missing, though, is any sense of how she got from there to here. Yes, she lost her entire family and was alternatively suicidal, catatonic, or manic with grief. Totally understandable. So how did she move from that stage to the point, eight years later, where she could participate in life again, inhabit her family's house, see family friends, and so on.
The descriptions of her grief were searing, honest, and compelling, but that is only half the story, as far as I'm concerned.