Full name: What Lies Between Us: A Novel

Author: Nayomi Munaweera Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary, Mystery, Crime Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781250118172

In the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka, a young girl grows up with her loving family; but even in the midst of this paradise, terror lurks in the shadows. When tragedy strikes, she and her mother must seek safety by immigrating to America. There the girl reinvents herself as an American teenager to survive, with the help of her cousin; but even as she assimilates and thrives, the secrets and scars of her past follow her into adulthood. In this new country of freedom, everything she has built begins to crumble around her, and her hold on reality becomes more and more tenuous. When the past and the present collide, she sees only one terrible choice. Similar books: Rape by Joyce Carol Oates Border Crossing by Pat Barker The Dead Do Not Improve by Jay Caspian Kang What They Do In The Dark by Amanda Coe Bone China by Roma Tearne The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser A Disobedient Girl by Ru Freeman Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka The Story of a Brief Marriage by Anuk Arudpragasam Clockers by Richard Price On Sal Mal Lane by Ru Freeman The New Centurions by Joseph Wambaugh True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne On a Night Like This by Ellen Sussman Father's Day by Simon Van Booy The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb Hawthorn and Child by Keith Ridgway Anatomy of a Miracle by Jonathan Miles The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera