It’s time for #6degrees. Start at the same place as other wonderful readers, add six books, and see where you end up. Continue reading
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Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
I think it’s fair to say that all grief memoirs are traumatic, but Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala is traumatic in an unthinkable way.
On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In Wave, she recounts the tsunami and the years following, when she spent time in Sri Lanka paralysed by grief, and then returned to her home in London. Continue reading
Sample Saturday – grief memoirs suggested by Higgins
Sample Saturday is when I wade through the eleventy billion samples I have downloaded on my Kindle. I’m slowly chipping away and deciding whether it’s buy or bye.
In her memoir, The Girls, Chloe Higgins references a number of grief memoirs. Some were familiar to me, others not. Continue reading