My Sweet Girl - Amanda Jayatissa Kartoniert (TB)

WINNER OF THE ITW THRILLER AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL My Sweet Girl pushes the boundaries of what a thriller can do. The Washington Post Fiendish [and] full of twists . Sri Lankan author Amanda Jayatissa keeps us guessing and worrying until the very end. The New York Times A thriller centered on the meaning of identity and all the layers it can have. NPRPaloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America but she s about to find out that no matter how far you run your past always catches up to you Ever since she was adopted from a Sri Lankan orphanage Palo ma has had the best of everything schools money and parents so perfect that she fears she'll never live up to them. Now at thirty years old and recently cut off from her parents funds she decides to sublet the second bedroom of her overpriced San Francisco apartment to Arun who recently moved from India. Paloma has to admit it feels good helping someone find their way in America that is until Arun discovers Paloma's darkest secret one that could jeopardize her own fragile place in this country. Before Paloma can pay Arun off she finds him face down in a pool of blood. She flees the apartment but by the time the police arrive there's no body and no evidence that Arun ever even existed in the first place. Paloma is terrified this is all somehow tangled up in the desperate actions she took to escape Sri Lanka so many years ago. Did Paloma s secret die with Arun or is she now in greater danger than ever before?