What Lies Between Us (Munaweera) - Book Reviews

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The paradisiacal landscapes of Sri Lanka are as astonishing as the barbarity of its revolution, and Munaweera evokes the power of both in a lyrical debut novel worthy of shelving alongside her countryman Michael Ondaatje or her fellow writer of the multigenerational immigrant experience Jhumpa Lahiri.
Publishers Weekly


[A] girl from Sri Lanka's beautiful hill country escapes terror by immigrating with her mother to America yet can't shake off the past and is eventually driven to commit a terrible crime.
Library Journal


This family tragedy begins in a prison cell, where the unnamed narrator wants to explain her (also unnamed) crime.... The melodramatic framing device only distracts from the crystalline precision with which Munaweera renders the richness of the immigrant experience as well as her character's singular longings, fears, joys, and demons.
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