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Initially I struggled to get into the story, I was a bit disappointed by the choppy writing and the reaction of the author directly after the tsunami hit.
I understood that she would be in shock and that her reaction was a coping mechanism however I was still taken aback at how she just immediately accepted it as a fact that her entire family was dead. No frantic searching the hospitals, morgues, swampland just a resignation that they are all gone.
It was not like I tried to cling to my children as they were torn from my arms, it was not like they were yanked from me, not like I saw them dead. They simply vanished from my life forever.
This haunted her later on making her doubt her love and value as a mother, spouse and daughter.
You always assume you know how you would react in a situation like this but hopefully most of us never have to find out what it feels like to lose your children, husband and parents in one of the most devastating natural disasters in recent history.
This book is an honest, if difficult, account of what grief looks like, the author does not try and sugar coat her reactions, faults and self-blame nor did she hide the fact that she really didn’t want to live with this situation.
I know of no other book that pens down the personal horrors of this tragedy so honestly and beautifully as this one even if the first part was a bit odd for me.
I understood that she would be in shock and that her reaction was a coping mechanism however I was still taken aback at how she just immediately accepted it as a fact that her entire family was dead. No frantic searching the hospitals, morgues, swampland just a resignation that they are all gone.
It was not like I tried to cling to my children as they were torn from my arms, it was not like they were yanked from me, not like I saw them dead. They simply vanished from my life forever.
This haunted her later on making her doubt her love and value as a mother, spouse and daughter.
You always assume you know how you would react in a situation like this but hopefully most of us never have to find out what it feels like to lose your children, husband and parents in one of the most devastating natural disasters in recent history.
This book is an honest, if difficult, account of what grief looks like, the author does not try and sugar coat her reactions, faults and self-blame nor did she hide the fact that she really didn’t want to live with this situation.
I know of no other book that pens down the personal horrors of this tragedy so honestly and beautifully as this one even if the first part was a bit odd for me.