The title story, set against the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 describes Veena Patels all-too-brief encounter with forbidden love. But Did I Tell You I Cant Dance? is a hilarious fable about old age, its occasional humiliations and its many heartwarming victories. And in Maleeshya Ashok himself makes a cameo appearance as a dead author who has embarrassingly come back to life. Love in the Tsunami brings together a selection of Ashok Ferreys short fiction with four brand new stories. Ashoks pen is rib-ticklingly funny and, occasionally, scathingly acerbic. He accurately portrays Sri Lanka in all its diversity.