When the past and the present collide, she sees no other choice than to commit her unforgivable final act. 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. Both love and loss fill her life, but even as she assimilates and thrives, the secrets and scars of her past follow her into adulthood. There the girl must reinvent herself as an American teenager to survive, with the help of her cousin. When tragedy strikes, she and her mother must seek safety by immigrating to America. 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. Where I come from it connotes absence, death, unrelenting loneliness." What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera Born in Sri Lanka and raised in Nigeria, San Francisco-based writer Nayomi Munaweera’s lyrical transcendent novel draws us into the lush, verdant landscapes of Sri Lanka and the undulating streets of San Francisco. "The walls of my cell are painted an industrial white, like albumen. From the award-winning author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors comes the confession of a woman, driven by the demons of her past to commit a single and possibly unforgivable crime.
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