Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, two sons and parents to the Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people. Her new... 'Wave' Tells A True Story Of Survival And Loss In ...

Economist Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, parents and two young sons in the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. They had been vacationing on the southern coast of her home country Sri Lanka ...

WAVE, by Sonali Deraniyagala (228 pages, Alfred A. Knopf, $24) This is the saddest story I have ever heard. So goes the first sentence of Ford Madox Ford s 1915 masterpiece, The Good Soldier. It s a ...

The 2004 tsunami that devastated the coast of Sri Lanka claimed more than a quarter-million lives in a few horrific minutes. But for many, such as Sonali Deraniyagala, those minutes have lasted a ...

The wave in the title of Sonali Deraniyagala's new memoir might be a metaphor: When misfortune strikes, it crashes into and washes through our lives, then back out again. But the wave here is deadly ...

Economist Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, parents and two sons in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami. Wave is her searing, unflinching account of... Exclusive First Read: 'Wave' By Sonali Deraniyagala ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, Sonali Deraniyagala was vacationing with her husband, her two sons and her parents in Yala, Sri Lanka. The day was just beginning when she and a friend noticed that something strange ...