"Unforgettable. . . . The most exceptional book about grief I've ever read. . . . [Deraniyagala] has fearlessly delivered on memoir's greatest promise: to tell it like it is, no matter the cost. . . . As unsparing as they come, but also defiantly flooded with light. . . . Extraordinary."
--Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review

"Unforgettable . . . It is a miracle Deraniyagala lived. The fact that she could write such a memoir, bringing those she loved to life so completely that they breathe on the page, is itself a miracle."
--Vanity Fair

"Out of unimaginable loss comes an unimaginably powerful book. . . . I urge you to read Wave. You will not be the same person after you've finished."
--Will Schwalbe

"Vivid. . . . What emerges from this wizardry most clearly is, of course, Deraniyagala herself--carrying within her present life another gorgeously remembered one."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"An amazing, beautiful book."
--Joan Didion

"Stories of grief, like stories of love, are of permanent literary interest when done well. . . . Greatness reverberates from [Deraniyagala's] simple and supple prose."
--The New York Times

"Turns revealing into art as powerful as a planetary vibration."
--The Plain Dealer

"Both heartbreaking and astonishingly beautiful."
--New York Post

"[Deraniyagala's family] spring from these pages with an exuberance and dimensionality that lifts Wave from memoir into some virtual realm of documentation."
--The Boston Globe

"[A] quiet memoir of torturous loss. . . . Deraniyagala tours memories of her young family's history with artistry."
--The New Yorker

"A haunting chronicle of love and horrifying loss. . . . Memory, sorrow, and undying love."
--Abraham Verghese

"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 such extraordinary gifts. . . . Wave is a small, slender book, but it is enormous on the inside."
--Salon

"Chillingly real. . . . Wave captures the elusive, shape-shifting nature of grief."
--Newsday

"Beautiful and ravaging . . . faultless prose."
--Daily Herald

"Immeasurably potent. . . . Relentless in its explication of grief, this massively courageous, tenaciously unsentimental chronicle of unthinkable loss and incremental recovery explodes--and then expands--our notion of what love really means."
--More magazine