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| Book Your Stocking 2018 |
Book Your Stocking: December 23
Clearly, you're standing in the bookstore reading today's book recommendation because this is the last Sunday before stockings are stuffed, and because you're using Book Your Stocking as your virtual book-list. Good.
Now that we have that established, please welcome today's reader, Aileen Keown Vaux, with your day-before-the-eve book-wish.
Prepare your stockings.
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| Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala cover |
The book I would want to see in my stocking this year is Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala a memoir written by an economics professor who lost her family (parents, husband, and two sons) to the 2004 Sri Lankan tsunami. Wave is exacting in its recall of events from that day, along with memories of Deraniyagala's past life, and her subsequent recovery.
I checked this book out from the public library last fall on a whim and haven't stopped thinking about it since. The book is as much a celebration of her family as it is a chronicle of devastation and those two aspects combined make for one of the most haunting reading experiences I've had in awhile.
Wave is a testament to one woman's strength, but also a record of how important language is to convey our realities to others.
- Find Wave at your bookstore.
- Discover Wave at your library.
- Learn more about the book from the publisher website.
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| Aileen Keown Vaux |
Aileen Keown Vaux is an essayist and poet whose chapbook Consolation Prize was published by Scablands Books in 2018.
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