Wave, Paperback/Sonali Deraniyagala

One of The New York Times 's 10 Best Books of the Year, a Christian Science Monitor Best Nonfiction Book, a Newsday Top 10 Books pick, a People m agazine Top 10 pick, a Good Reads Best Book of the Year, and a Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist In 2004, at a beach resort on the coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala and her family parents, husband, sons were swept away by a tsunami.Only Sonali survived to tell their tale. This is her account of the nearly incomprehensible event and its aftermath. "