My Sweet Girl
(Sprache: Englisch)
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...
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...
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WINNER OF THE ITW THRILLER AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVELMy 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. NPR
Paloma 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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1San Francisco, CA
Present Day
There's a special place in hell for incompetent customer service agents, and it's right between monsters who stick their bare feet up on airplane seats and mansplainers. Fake hair, false smiles, synthetic blazers that pool around their middles while they tell you that yes, they would love to help you, and thank you for your patience, and no, sorry for the inconvenience caused but they can't seem to find your paperwork even if it punched them square in the jaw.
I inhaled. Be nice, Paloma. Be kind.
My agent's name today is Bethany. Bethany, with badly dyed hair so red it looked like Elmo had a love child with Jessica Rabbit, and two buttons undone on her much-too-tight polka-dot polyester blouse. She smiled as if she had all the time in this crazy world, her gaze not wavering from the screen in front of her, refusing to meet my eye even when she knew she was royally messing up. She had a smear of livid coral lipstick on her teeth. It clashed hard against her hair.
My hands were trembling slightly, so I made sure they weren't on the table in front of me. I hate how they do that when I'm angry. I hate it when I'm angry. It makes it hard to think straight. And I needed to think straight right now. I couldn't have that cunning, two-faced soon-to-be-ex-roommate of mine getting in my head. The actual nerve of Arun.
I kept thinking back to that no-good loser's grin. The one he wore when he told me that he knew. He knew. I'd made it eighteen goddamned years in this country, and now this absolute moron who tears up when he talks about his mother's aloo paratha had the gall, no, the actual balls to try to ruin it for me? He definitely didn't know who he was messing with.
I mean, I would fucking kill him. Wrap my fingers around his blackmailing little
... mehr
throat and smother the life out of him. How dare he? I can't believe I actually felt sorry for him. I really can't afford any more rent than this, please. You have to help me out. He totally played his poor-little-immigrant card, and I bought it all up. I knew what it was like to depend on the charity of others. To have your life decided by someone who just woke up one morning and thought they'd throw you a line.
And how the hell does he go ahead and repay me? He snoops around through my things. Finds out my worst secret. Demands I buy his silence.
Another pang of anger ricocheted through me.
I double-checked that the letter was still in my pocket. Good. I know it didn't do much to have it with me, now that Arun had already read it, but it gave me the tiniest bit of comfort having it back in my possession.
My hands gave another shudder. I sat on them and turned my focus back to Bethany. She shouldn't see me this upset. She sure as hell couldn't find out that my shit-bag of a roommate was one step away from ruining a life I had already sacrificed so much for.
Concentrate, Paloma.
I gave her my best smile. "Technology, huh? Supposed to make our lives easier . . ."
Score. Her relief was palpable, like a deer realizing that the oncoming headlights weren't going to run it over. I wasn't one of those assholes who would embarrass her by making a scene in this deathly quiet, needlessly ostentatious bank. Fair enough that I was dressed like a bum in sweatpants and an oversized sweatshirt-it's not like I was in the best frame of mind to choose an outfit that would give bank tellers a good first impression of me, but I was making up for it by being so nice my jaw ached. Model minority, every part of me screamed. I wasn't here to cause any issues. Just take care of my request and I'll be on my way.
She smiled again, lipstick bleeding outside her lip line, as she keyed in
And how the hell does he go ahead and repay me? He snoops around through my things. Finds out my worst secret. Demands I buy his silence.
Another pang of anger ricocheted through me.
I double-checked that the letter was still in my pocket. Good. I know it didn't do much to have it with me, now that Arun had already read it, but it gave me the tiniest bit of comfort having it back in my possession.
My hands gave another shudder. I sat on them and turned my focus back to Bethany. She shouldn't see me this upset. She sure as hell couldn't find out that my shit-bag of a roommate was one step away from ruining a life I had already sacrificed so much for.
Concentrate, Paloma.
I gave her my best smile. "Technology, huh? Supposed to make our lives easier . . ."
Score. Her relief was palpable, like a deer realizing that the oncoming headlights weren't going to run it over. I wasn't one of those assholes who would embarrass her by making a scene in this deathly quiet, needlessly ostentatious bank. Fair enough that I was dressed like a bum in sweatpants and an oversized sweatshirt-it's not like I was in the best frame of mind to choose an outfit that would give bank tellers a good first impression of me, but I was making up for it by being so nice my jaw ached. Model minority, every part of me screamed. I wasn't here to cause any issues. Just take care of my request and I'll be on my way.
She smiled again, lipstick bleeding outside her lip line, as she keyed in
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Autoren-Porträt von Amanda Jayatissa
Amanda Jayatissa grew up in Sri Lanka, completed her undergrad at Mills College in California and lived in the UK before moving back to her sunny little island. She works as a corporate trainer, owns a chain of cookie stores, and is a proud dog mum to her two spoiled huskies.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Amanda Jayatissa
- 2022, 400 Seiten, Maße: 13,8 x 20,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Berkley
- ISBN-10: 0593335090
- ISBN-13: 9780593335093
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.07.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A Most Anticipated Novel of Fall 2021 by Entertainment Weekly, NPR, New York Post, The Boston Globe, Fortune, Buzzfeed, Goodreads, Shondaland, PopSugar, Bustle, Betches, Lit Hub, Crime Reads, BookRiot, Crime by the Book, The Nerd Daily, The Every Girl, and more!This debut thriller as witty as it is propulsive will keep readers guessing. O, The Oprah Magazine
Dark, compelling and utterly original. My Sweet Girl heralds a fresh, new voice in psychological suspense."
Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark
Like nothing else I ve read. Set in San Francisco and Sri Lanka, this is a story about friendship, lies, and guilt. A stunning and original must-read!
Samantha Downing, USA Today author of My Lovely Wife
Jayatissa s pulse-pounding debut is a fast-paced thriller that will keep you on your toes.
Buzzfeed
Provocative.
Entertainment Weekly
The perfect thriller to kick off fall is here, and what better way to settle into the season than with a spellbinding tale about a young woman with a secret?...What follows is a smart, darkly funny novel filled with twists that will leave you wondering.
Shondaland
[F]un, fast-moving debut.
San Francisco Chronicle
"This is a Hitchcockian thriller of the highest order with secrets, revelations and twists around every corner right through to the very end."
BookReporter
[T]here s no way to capture the gist of this complex character or this captivating novel in a simple phrase other than excellent.
Mystery Scene Magazine
My Sweet Girl is unputdownable. Jayatissa has penned a jaw-droppingly original novel that will burrow so far into readers psyches, it will be hard for any of us to pick up another psychological thriller again.
The Tempest
[A] page-turning and often genuinely scary psychological thriller, filled with more twists and bite than a
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rattlesnake!
Criminal Element
Jayatissa's gift for plotting is matched by her grace with lacing her fleet narrative with rich social themes, among them cultural assimilation and the different values placed on white versus brown bodies. In a canny touch, the novel's plot hinges on the literary classic Wuthering Heights. My Sweet Girl may well become, likewise, a classic.
Shelf Awareness
A delicious, twisty, fast-paced thriller with the perfect hint of ghost story.
Michele Campbell, bestselling author of It s Always the Husband
Hot damn this book is good.
CrimeReads
My fave debut thriller of the year!
Crime by the Book
The thrills and chills narrative with numerous plot twists keeps the reader engaged from the first page.
International Examiner
A mysterious, thrilling, and sinister tale that will keep you up for hours wanting to know more interwoven with incredibly relatable themes surrounding identity and belonging.
Brown Girl Magazine
My Sweet Girl has it all: a paranoid bad-girl protagonist, shocking twists, and gothic chills in a totally original setting.
Amy Gentry, bestselling author of Good as Gone
Ridiculously good. Crazy good. Scary good.
Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of The First to Lie
[A] dark thriller of international deceit and murder."
BookPage
"In her debut novel, Sri Lanka based Jayatissa is a master of first-person narration as she delves into questions of identity--how individuals perceive themselves, and the tendency not to see others for who they really are. Her fast-paced mystery, with an unreliable but sympathetic narrator, will hook readers from the very beginning."
Library Journal
Equal parts witty, chilling, and hypnotic, and it includes some of the creepiest lines and images I ve ever read.
Megan Collins, author of The Winter Sister
Starts with a bang and doesn t let up. Haunted by her past, hunted in her present, Paloma must find her life in America, or lose it forever. A richly layered, firecracker of a thriller.
Eliza Jane Brazier, author of If I Disappear
"A gothic-inspired, page turner with enough twists and turns to keep you up through the night as well as a deft exploration of race and gender wrapped up within the thriller."
Nayomi Munaweera, author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors
My Sweet Girl marks the entrance of a new talent."
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
[A] dark, twisty psychological thriller.
Publishers Weekly
"...[M]ore than a bit shocking. This was a great mystery thriller and would make a cool movie."
Parkersburg News and Sentinel
Criminal Element
Jayatissa's gift for plotting is matched by her grace with lacing her fleet narrative with rich social themes, among them cultural assimilation and the different values placed on white versus brown bodies. In a canny touch, the novel's plot hinges on the literary classic Wuthering Heights. My Sweet Girl may well become, likewise, a classic.
Shelf Awareness
A delicious, twisty, fast-paced thriller with the perfect hint of ghost story.
Michele Campbell, bestselling author of It s Always the Husband
Hot damn this book is good.
CrimeReads
My fave debut thriller of the year!
Crime by the Book
The thrills and chills narrative with numerous plot twists keeps the reader engaged from the first page.
International Examiner
A mysterious, thrilling, and sinister tale that will keep you up for hours wanting to know more interwoven with incredibly relatable themes surrounding identity and belonging.
Brown Girl Magazine
My Sweet Girl has it all: a paranoid bad-girl protagonist, shocking twists, and gothic chills in a totally original setting.
Amy Gentry, bestselling author of Good as Gone
Ridiculously good. Crazy good. Scary good.
Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling author of The First to Lie
[A] dark thriller of international deceit and murder."
BookPage
"In her debut novel, Sri Lanka based Jayatissa is a master of first-person narration as she delves into questions of identity--how individuals perceive themselves, and the tendency not to see others for who they really are. Her fast-paced mystery, with an unreliable but sympathetic narrator, will hook readers from the very beginning."
Library Journal
Equal parts witty, chilling, and hypnotic, and it includes some of the creepiest lines and images I ve ever read.
Megan Collins, author of The Winter Sister
Starts with a bang and doesn t let up. Haunted by her past, hunted in her present, Paloma must find her life in America, or lose it forever. A richly layered, firecracker of a thriller.
Eliza Jane Brazier, author of If I Disappear
"A gothic-inspired, page turner with enough twists and turns to keep you up through the night as well as a deft exploration of race and gender wrapped up within the thriller."
Nayomi Munaweera, author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors
My Sweet Girl marks the entrance of a new talent."
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
[A] dark, twisty psychological thriller.
Publishers Weekly
"...[M]ore than a bit shocking. This was a great mystery thriller and would make a cool movie."
Parkersburg News and Sentinel
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