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by Amanda Jayatissa
Amanda Jayatissa (Goodreads Author)
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
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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Published
September 14th 2021
by Berkley Publishing
0593335082
(ISBN13: 9780593335086 )
San Francisco, California
(United States)
Sri Lanka
California
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I listened to the audiobook too, and I liked the swearing. But, I love the f word.
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I thought this too but then I remembered that the real Paloma had taken off her wig of pink hair and she had cut fake Paloma's hair (Lihini) and was a …more I thought this too but then I remembered that the real Paloma had taken off her wig of pink hair and she had cut fake Paloma's hair (Lihini) and was applying pink dye to her hair. So, it was probably easy to mistake her. Sam, on the other hand, knew better and was able to see that the woman that came to meet him was not the person he knew as Paloma. (less)
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Happy pub day to this mind blowing debut! Oh my...oh...my...oh....my...argh! This...is...freaking...fantastic... I proudly announce the best of the best debut of the year! This is smart! This is cunning! So twisty, so mind bending, so deliciously dark, vicious, outstandingly unputdownable! There are too many jaw dropping twists! I guessed the big one in the middle of the book! But the ending...oh that freaking, WTH ending is truly unexpected punch on my face! My spider senses could never ever ca
Happy pub day to this mind blowing debut! Oh my...oh...my...oh....my...argh! This...is...freaking...fantastic... I proudly announce the best of the best debut of the year! This is smart! This is cunning! So twisty, so mind bending, so deliciously dark, vicious, outstandingly unputdownable! There are too many jaw dropping twists! I guessed the big one in the middle of the book! But the ending...oh that freaking, WTH ending is truly unexpected punch on my face! My spider senses could never ever caught it! I’m still soooo shocked! I’m still smiling! The author fooled me twice and shame on me!!! The story is divided between two time lines and two countries : 18 years ago at Sri Lankan orphanage and present time/ San Francisco-CA We’re introduced to Paloma who has been adopted by her American parents from her Sri Lankan orphanage when she’s 14! If she hasn’t been saved by them ,next year she may have sent to St. Margaret’s to endure the tortures of Sister Cynthia who knew how to create pain with her cane just like other 15 years old orphans ! But thankfully Evans family took her under their wing and gave her an opportunity to start over at the US with welcoming her with open arms. But now she’s in her early thirties, suffering from psychological problems, selling her dirty pantries on the internet for balancing her finances, mixing drinks with drugs, having blackouts and the worst part is she has been keeping a big secret for years which is already found out her roommate Arun who already started blackmailing her! The same day she is adamant to confront him she finds him dead at his room lying in a blood bath. As soon as she sees his body, she freaks out, dashing out from her apartment. Then she passes out at the stairwell. When the police officers come to search her place the corpse of Arun is nowhere to be seen. What the actually heck? Did she see another hallucination again? At CCTV records, they haven’t found something suspicious. The officers advise her to stay at somewhere else for a while if she feels she’s in danger so she moves to her parents’ house temporarily but her mind keeps playing games with her or someone is already targeted her to mess with her blurry mind! Who knows? When you deal with unreliable narrator you never know who you’re gonna believe. Especially a narrator is so agitated, negative, seeing the worst of people, acting too bitchy around anyone who wants to help her or befriend her. She’s so self destructive and when we read the flashback parts at Sri Lanka, we think we may make sense why she is turned into a person she is now. But from the beginning we know she might have done something so terrible which make her suffer from guilt feelings for years and we flip the pages so fast to find out! What can I say? Our past always has a way of catching up to us. Whatever will be, will be. But I’m telling you my friends, pay attention what you’re reading and be ready to get shocked! This is freaking best, fresh, extraordinary thing I’ve lately read! I’m one hundred percent recommend this amazing book! Absolutely this is the best debut of the year! I’m giving my highly earned, surprising, unexpected, riveting, cunning, wow just wow, five gazillion stars! Special thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing For sharing this amazing digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts.
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My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa This dual timeline story introduces us to thirty year old Paloma, adopted daughter of wealthy parents, formerly a Sri Lankan orphan. Adoption gave Paloma everything that money could buy and she has tried her best to stay in the good graces of her adoptive parents. Paloma was willing to do anything to escape the Sri Lankan orphanage, the abuses there, and the possible worse abuses once she aged out of the orphanage. Now her parents have cut her off, her roommate
My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa This dual timeline story introduces us to thirty year old Paloma, adopted daughter of wealthy parents, formerly a Sri Lankan orphan. Adoption gave Paloma everything that money could buy and she has tried her best to stay in the good graces of her adoptive parents. Paloma was willing to do anything to escape the Sri Lankan orphanage, the abuses there, and the possible worse abuses once she aged out of the orphanage. Now her parents have cut her off, her roommate claims he knows her secret, and Paloma is going off the rails, mentally and emotionally. It doesn't help that she finds her roommate dead and then his body disappears. In fact, it seems several people in her life are missing and she can't find answers, especially because the police don't seem to think she's on the up and up. Actually, Paloma is hiding a lot of secrets, one building on another. It won't help if her way of bringing in money is discovered...what she does for money puts her in contact with the dregs of society. She has even gotten a stalker out of her shady business dealings. She's getting professional help for her mental problems but the prescription drugs she takes don't mix well at all with all the alcohol she drinks. Then there are the hallucinations, unless the ghost is real. On the surface, this seems like it could be an interesting thriller but I think it's more a character study of a possibly unreliable narrator. There is the supernatural element of the story but it all doesn't fit well with the rest of the story, which seems to have trouble finding it's identity. I wanted to sympathize with Paloma but she's such a critical, judgmental person and the more I thought I knew about her, the less I wanted to know her. I think the cover of this book is beautiful and I liked being able to picture the main character because of it. The cover is what drew me to the book, as much as the synopsis. I know the story will appeal to a lot of readers even though it didn't click with me as much as I would have liked. Published September 14th 2021 Thank you to Elisha, Berkley, and NetGalley for this ARC.
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It didn’t come easily to me. I had to work at it. But if I learned one thing from Mom, it’s that it was usually worth it being the sweet girl.
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“When you die, can I have your skin?” she asked calmly, tracing a finger over my face, before getting up and walking out of the room, leaving me so afraid that I couldn’t move.
Paloma Evans is 30 years old, living in San Francisco. She had been adopted at age 12 out of a Sri Lankan orphanage, the Little Miracle
It didn’t come easily to me. I had to work at it. But if I learned one thing from Mom, it’s that it was usually worth it being the sweet girl.
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“When you die, can I have your skin?” she asked calmly, tracing a finger over my face, before getting up and walking out of the room, leaving me so afraid that I couldn’t move.
Paloma Evans is 30 years old, living in San Francisco. She had been adopted at age 12 out of a Sri Lankan orphanage, the Little Miracles Girls Home . Recently cut off from her parental funds, she engages in dodgy on-line behavior to make a buck, (One of her creepy clients appears to be stalking her) and had to take in a room-mate to help with the insane San Francisco rental costs. But the roomie, an Indian immigrant, learned her big secret, and is blackmailing her, which is bad enough. Arriving home after a few too many, she finds him dead in her kitchen. It gets worse. Chased out of her own apartment by the presumed killer, a seemingly spectral figure, she heads for the stairwell. But fingers close on her neck before she can escape. She wakes up hours later, in the stairway, a scolding neighbor barking at her, presuming she had passed out, drunk…again. Amanda Jayatissa - image from Artra Magazine Before she can figure out how to deal, the cops arrive. She tells them what she had seen, but when they look through the apartment, the body is gone. The detective does not believe her, and his skepticism is understandable. Paloma is a blackout drunk, unable to recall events that took place, actions she undertook during her blacked-out hours. She really has no idea what happened to the guy, but does remember that she had fled her apartment, looking around after discovering the body, and was chased out of the place by a ghost from her past. Paloma may be an adult, but, despite years of therapy, she has carried from childhood a powerful belief in an old-country ghostly being called Mohini , (think the freaky girl who emerges from The Ring in desperate need of a makeover, dressed in white). Seeing that terrifying presence in her apartment just after discovering her roommate’s body reinforces her belief. Losing hours after fleeing her apartment does not help. So what’s going on?
Mohini is my favorite ghost story. She is one of the most famous urban legends here in Sri Lanka, a stereotypical woman in white…It’s a story that is very special to me. It’s a story we grew up whispering to each other around the candle in the night. I have actually dressed up as Mohini…to scare my cousins…It was hilarious. I knew that I needed to include this ghost story element into the book…It was the story that defined a lot of the scary stories of my childhood. - from the Books and Boba interview The tale takes place in two timelines, alternating chapters, today, presumably 2018, give or take, as Covid is not yet a thing, and 2000, also give or take, when Paloma was a 12yo orphan in Sri Lanka. We follow her story there, her friendships, her interests, her hopes. The home is not a bad place, those in charge are a relatively benign pair, but on occasion the girls are given a class with the terrible, the horrible, the most feared Sister Cynthia, a sadistic witch of a person, who delights in physically harming the girls and threatening them with eternal damnation. (zero stars in RateMyTeachers) She is, unfortunately, in charge of Saint Margaret’s Home for Girls , the place where those who are not adopted will be sent after they age out of Miracles , a terrifying prospect. The Evanses are a wealthy American couple, supporters of the orphanage, and many other charities. They are looking to buy adopt a child. The girls at the orphanage are all prepped for when potential adopting parents stop by for a look-see, orphanage management trying its best to make a good impression, get one of their girls adopted, and hopefully gain some extra financial support and good press from the adopters. Paloma and Lihini are besties at Miracles . Physically similar, fair-skinned, similar in height, build and overall looks. They sleep together often, in the comforting child-like sense, not that other one. We see how their relationship evolves with each chapter back in Sri Lanka. As only one child will be selected, there is understandable tension between them. Today, give or take, Paloma is frantic. She goes to stay at her parents’ suburban house, as they are away, and remaining at the scene of the crime seems unwise. Was she hallucinating? This is not entirely impossible as she had been warned by her therapist that drinking on top of her new meds could do really bad things to her. But did we mention that Paloma is a blackout drunk? Paloma goes all Miss Marple trying to figure out what happened to her roomie, and why. Then the mysteries start to breed. A neighbor of her parents vanishes mysteriously, and who is that strange woman who seems to be spying on her? The story is plenty fun enough on its own merits. But there is more going on here. Racial elements permeate. Lihini and Paloma stand out a bit from the rest of the girls because of their relatively fair skin, seen as an advantage for those hoping to be taken in by a westerner. There is a wonderful scene in a restaurant bathroom in which Paloma is mistaken for another Asian women by a somewhat inebriated white woman, an experience Jayatissa has had, and which many people she knows have had. It is not the only moment in the book in which someone is unable to tell two people of color apart. Toss in discussions with other POCs about stereotypes applied to South Asians. Her shrink, Nina, whom she likes, is raucously white, dressing in white, her office decorated all in white, and it is shocking when Paloma sees her wearing anything with color.
She kept all her pristine white files inside a pristine white filing cabinet, in a corner of her pristine white office. When I say pristine , I mean surgical-level clean. When I say white , I mean eyeball-searing, detergent-commercial white. She even asked her clients to take their shoes off so they wouldn’t mess up the spotless shag carpet. And it always smelled like freshly laundered sheets. She probably had an air freshener tucked behind the couch or something, because there was never any laundry in sight.
Gender and madness permeates. The book opens with Paloma about to lose it, dealing with a bank employee who is not quite up to speed with the institution’s processes.
I was suffering from the worst case of writers’ block, and to say my mood was bleak would be an understatement. And then I had a really annoying experience with a customer service associate at my bank, where I found myself wanting to scream and shout and make a scene, but of course I didn’t. I kept it together, like most of us are trained to do, went into a coffee shop, where I pulled out a notebook and a piece of paper and really let that customer service associate have it. I guess you could say that’s how Paloma came about. - from The Big Thrill interview Difficult women are often presumed to be nuts, and many have learned to couch their displeasure under a polite veneer. Paloma does that in the book. In fact, while one might think of her as foul-mouthed, the profanity in her internal monologue remains unspoken. This is not to say that Paloma is not abrasive and does not need considerable therapy. She certainly is and she certainly does. Orphanage girls must cope with potential. sexual predation, always knowing that they will be called liars or delusional if they report abuse. And there is the trauma of losing children that can drive women mad with grief. Also the danger of internalizing it when people keep telling her she is losing her mind. Several classic novels are mentioned, among them Little Women , Anne of Green Gables , Oliver Twist , and, most significantly, Wuthering Heights , all present in the orphanage library, the last being Paloma’s favorite. ( Mrs. Evans was going to be my Catherine. She was going to save me. ) Unsurprisingly, most have to do with orphans. (Wish she had found a way to fit in a reference to The Pirates of Penzance , as well) Thematically, there are concerns from those books that are reflected here. Sister Cynthia certainly represents a Dickensian nightmare of orphanage management. T
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