What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera

Island of a Thousand Mirrors, Munaweera's debut novel, was published in South Asia in 2012 and in the U.S. She holds Bachelor's degree in Literature from the University of California, Irvine, and a Master's degree in South Asian Literature from the University of California, Riverside. They went first to Nigeria then eventually settled in Los Angeles, California, where Munaweera spent her teenage years. Nayomi Munaweera was born in Sri Lanka, but her family left to escape the ravages of the civil war. In 2016 she released her second novel What Lies Between Us. Her 2012 debut Island of a Thousand Mirrors won Commonwealth Book Prize for the Asian Region in 2013 and was shortlisted for a number of other awards. Nayomi Munaweera is a Sri Lankan American writer and author of two novels. Currently-lives in the San Francisco Bay area.Awards-Commonwealth Book Prize (Asian Region).Education-B.A., University of California (UCAL), Irving M.A., UCAL, Riverside.

When the past and the present collide, she sees only one terrible choice.įrom Nayomi Munaweera, the award-winning author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors, comes the confession of a woman, driven by the demons of her past to commit a single and possibly unforgivable crime. ( From the publisher.) In this new country of freedom, everything she has built begins to crumble around her, and her hold on reality becomes more and more tenuous. There the girl reinvents herself as an American teenager to survive, with the help of her cousin but even as she assimilates and thrives, the secrets and scars of her past follow her into adulthood. When tragedy strikes, she and her mother must seek safety by immigrating to America.

In the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka, a young girl grows up with her loving family but even in the midst of this paradise, terror lurks in the shadows.

What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera