Wave (Ciltli)_{One of the 10 Best Books of the Year}

Praise for Wave

"Out of unimaginable loss comes an unimaginably powerful book. wave is unflinching as it charts the depths of grief, but bu it's also, miraculously, a beautifully detailed meditation on the essence of happiness. I came away from this stunning book with a new appreciation of life's daily gifts. I urge you to read Wave. You will not be the same person after you've finished."

-Will Schwalbe, author of The End  of Your Life Book Club

"Stories of grief, like stories of love, are of permanent literary interest when done well... A form of greatness reverberates from Deraniyagala's simple and supple prose

-the .new York Times

"Radiant... The extremity of Deraniyagala's story seizes the attention, but it's the beauty of how she expresses it that makes it indelible... (She is) a writer of extraordinary gifts... Wave is a small, slender book, but it is enormous on the inside."

-Salon

"Immeasurably potent... This massively courageous, trnaciously unsentimental chronicle of unthinkable loss and incremental choronicle of unthinkable loss and incremental recovery explodes-and then expands-our notion of what love really means."

-More magazine

"The most powerful and hauting book I have read in years... Sonali Deraniyagala has brought back to life in this stunning memoir all those she lost, so much so that we will never forget them or their lives."

-Michael Ondaatje, author of The English Patient