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'Wave,' by Sonali Deraniyagala WaveBy Sonali Deraniyagala(Knopf; 228 pages; $24)In December 2004, when some of the places I had visited and loved in Sri Lanka were hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami, I watched from afar in horror. In the book' opening scenes, Deraniyagala is vacationing with her family in Yala, a national park in her native Sri Lanka, when the sea approaches, foaming suspiciously. The book shifts between Colombo and London, and then Colombo, London and New York (where Deraniyagala is now a research scholar at Columbia), and ultimately to other destinations as she travels through pain with friends and family at her side. While most sections are marked with the years of their present action - Deraniyagala's temporal distance from the wave - most of the time that action takes the form of remembrance. Each springs to vivid life through the particular window of her mourning. Sometimes these images knock her to the ground, but in other moments, she cannot help but return to their family's shared appreciation of the beautiful world around them. Many of the most moving passages find her traveling through time and space: the family's untouched London home, years later; whale-watching; sub-arctic Sweden. The beauty they would have loved burns the truth of her life to its simplest vision, something beyond pain: "Immersed in that endless white, I knew I was their mother, my horror dormant, or not that relevant even."

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