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What Lies Between Us [Paperback] Nayomi Munaweera

Release date: 19 July 2016
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The walls of my cell are painted an industrial white, like albumen. They must think the color is soothing. Where I come from it connotes absence, death, unrelenting loneliness. A young girl grows up carefree in the midst of her loving family in a sprawling old house in Sri Lanka. Her childhood is like any other until a cherished friendship is seen to have monstrous undertones and the consequences spell both the end of her childhood and that of her home. Ostracized by an unforgiving community, the girl and her mother seek safety by immigrating to America. Years later, when she falls in love with Daniel, it appears she has found her happily ever after. Instead, her secrets and scars continue to corrode her life, past and present collide, driving her to commit a single, possibly unforgivable, crime This is her confession. What lies between us is a haunting, heartbreaking story about mothers and daughters, about secrets and lies and the things we do to protect those we love.

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Title: What Lies Between Us [Paperback] Nayomi Munaweera
Author: Nayomi Munaweera
Publisher: PAN BOOKS
SKU: BK0382817
EAN: 9789382616948
Number Of Pages: 304
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Release date: 19 July 2016

About Author

Nayomi Munaweera’s debut novel, Island of a Thousand Mirrors, was long-listed for the Man Asia Literary Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It was short-listed for the DSC Prize and the Northern California Book Prize. It won the Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia. It won a Godage Prize from its home country and was a Target Book Club selection. Munaweera’s second novel, What Lies Between Us, a book about a Sri Lanka-American was hailed as one of the most exciting literary releases of 2016 from venues ranging from Buzzfeed to Elle magazine. It won the Sri Lankan National Book Award for best English novel and the Godage Award for Best English Novel. The Huffington Post raved, “Munaweera’s prose is visceral and indelible, devastatingly beautiful-reminiscent of the glorious writings of Louise Erdrich, Amy Tan and Alice Walker, who also find ways to truth-tell through fiction.” Munaweera is also widely anthologized in collections such as Good Girls Marry Doctors; South Asian-American Women on Obedience and Rebellion, Oakland Noir, Many Roads Through Paradise, Write to Reconcile Anthologies I and III and All the Women in My Family Sing. Munaweera is an alumni of Voices of Our Ancestors Writing Workshop and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. She teaches at Mills College and at the Ashland University low-residency MFA Program. She holds writing workshops in Sri Lanka through a program called Write to Reconcile in which she co-teaches with legendary Sri Lankan writer, Shyam Selvadurai. Their aim is to use writing as a tool of reconciliation and healing for both Tamil and Sinhala survivors of the civil war. Munaweera’s non-fiction and short fiction are also widely available online.

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