Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala was gifted to me by a friend a few years ago after the sudden loss of my mom, and it has just been sitting on my shelf waiting to be read.

This book was okay. It's the author's memoir about her experience surviving the Boxing Day tsunami in Sri Lanka in 2004. She survived, her entire family didn't. It's a really sad story, and you feel that sadness throughout the entire book. It's also very heavy on grief and loss, and how the author was coping (or not coping) afterward. As a memoir, it's always interesting to hear someone's story, but I didn't feel this book was anything special or memorable to me. It was just really really sad.