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Rachel Bedard highlighted the book as an unbelievably beautiful memoir that explored grief, resilience, and optimism after the loss of her entire family in the 2004 Sri Lankan tsunami. She praised it as the best thing she had ever read on those themes, emphasizing its powerful and hopeful perspective.
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Rachel Bedard called it an unbelievably beautiful memoir about grief, resilience, and optimism after the loss of her entire family in the 2004 Sri Lankan tsunami.
And then a book called Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala, who is an economist. It's a memoir that she wrote. She lost her entire family in the 2004 Sri Lankan tsunami. Her husband, her two children, and her parents all at once. It is an unbelievably beautiful book, and it is the best thing I've ever read about grief and resilience and optimism after hard things have happened.