"Hanrahan engrossingly tells of the tragedy and its aftermath in a fascinating mixture of re-created conversations and intensely researched historical fact."
Paul O’Neill, Author of The Oldest City: The Story of St. John’s, Newfoundland
"Hanrahan's lively and moving account
dramatically recreates the lives of people who survived that fatal day."
Canadian Book Review Annual
"Using a mix of recreated conversations and historical fact, Hanrahan
has crafted an affecting account of a maritime tragedy with a cruel
difference."
Maclean's
"Hanrahan delivers a gripping story in a crisp, straightforward manner."
The Telegram
"Using a blend of thoroughly researched historical fact, survivor
interviews (including Margaret Rennie Saint), and recreated dialogue and
scenes (anthropologist Hanrahan is from the region and is familiar with
the physical and vernacular landscape), Tsunami takes the
reader on an emotional ride covering that fateful day and the days
immediately following."
The Beaver
"The author has a gift of fluency and expression almost as if she
experienced the events firsthand."
The Aurora
"Tsunami is a gripping book as well as a piece of our history."
The Reader
"Maura Hanrahan's research is painstaking. Her characters, historical
figures resurrected, exude authenticity and her interpretations of the
loves and times of Newfoundland outports ring hauntingly stark."
Ian McAllister, Dalhousie University
"Hanrahan immediately draws the reader into the lives of the Peninsula
residents . . ."
Downhome
"By overlapping carefully reconstructed
narratives, Maura Hanrahan's Tsunami: The Newfoundland Tidal Wave
Disaster offers a poignant account of this singular, sad event."
Atlantic Books Today
"Author Maura Hanrahan tells this remarkable
tale with compassion and power, bringing to us a bit of Atlantic history we
may not have known anything about . . ."
The Chronicle Herald
"Well-written and thoroughly researched,
Hanrahan's Tsunami is part intimate family memoir and part maritime
history."
The Evening News
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