ISBN: 9780593335093
Editorial: Berkley
Autor: Jayatissa, Amanda
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 400
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: 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?ReviewA 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 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 thi
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