The Resource My sweet girl, Amanda Jayatissa
My sweet girl, Amanda Jayatissa
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The item My sweet girl, Amanda Jayatissa represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item My sweet girl, Amanda Jayatissa represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "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 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 facedown 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?"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- My sweet girl
- Title
- My sweet girl
- Statement of responsibility
- Amanda Jayatissa
- Subject
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- trueMemories
- trueOrphanages
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
- trueSan Francisco, California
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- trueSecrets
- trueSouth Asian people
- trueSri Lanka
- Sri Lankans -- United States -- Fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- trueUnited States
- Adoptees -- Fiction
- trueAdoption
- Adoption -- Fiction
- trueAsian people
- trueAsian people in the United States
- trueAsians in the United States
- trueCalifornia
- trueDrinking
- trueGhosts
- trueHallucinations and illusions
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Murder -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 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 facedown 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?"--
- Award
- Thriller Award for Best First Novel, 2022.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 11001412
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jayatissa, Amanda
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sri Lankans
- Adoptees
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Adoption
- Murder
- Secrecy
- Label
- My sweet girl, Amanda Jayatissa
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 376 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593335086
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2021019902
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1227976054
- Label
- My sweet girl, Amanda Jayatissa
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 376 pages
- Isbn
- 9780593335086
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2021019902
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1227976054
Subject
- trueMemories
- trueOrphanages
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
- trueSan Francisco, California
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- trueSecrets
- trueSouth Asian people
- trueSri Lanka
- Sri Lankans -- United States -- Fiction
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- trueUnited States
- Adoptees -- Fiction
- trueAdoption
- Adoption -- Fiction
- trueAsian people
- trueAsian people in the United States
- trueAsians in the United States
- trueCalifornia
- trueDrinking
- trueGhosts
- trueHallucinations and illusions
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueInterpersonal relations
- Murder -- Fiction
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Delmont Gardens Branch LibraryBorrow it3351 Lorraine St., Baton Rouge, LA, 70805, US30.496721 -91.156970
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