Finished "Wave" by Sonali Deraniyagala. This book is about a Sri Lankan woman who lost her family - her husband, her two young sons, and her parents - in the tsunami of December 26, 2004. In a single, random act of self-preservation as she floated along with the current flowing out to sea, she grabbed onto the branches of a tree and survived. Then she fell apart into drinking and self-destructive behavior.
Then she started listening to The Smiths.
There is no happy ending here. There's just the coping with loss and eventually coming to terms with the fact that everyone was dead to the point that she could say it and know it was true. And knowing it was true did not stop her memories from triggering at little things that reminded her of her former existence.
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