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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  Paloma 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?

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