02120cam a2200301 4500 509664115 TxAuBib 20211019120000.0 210428s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021019902 9780593335086 HRD 26.00 0593335082 HRD 26.00 TxAuBib Jayatissa, Amanda. My sweet girl [BOOK] / Amanda Jayatissa. First edition. New York : Berkley, [2021] 376 pages ; 24 cm. "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 hashad 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 Palomacan 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 inthe 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?"-- Provided by publisher. 20211019. Adoption Fiction. Murder Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Sri Lankans United States Fiction. Adoptees Fiction. San Francisco (Calif) Fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.)