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What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera

What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera Publisher - Pan Macmillan India Publication Year - 2016 ISBN-13 - 9789382616948 ISBN-10 - 9382616942 Language - English Binding - Paperback Number of Pages - 304 Pages What Lies Between Us is that novel which captures trauma with fiery intensity. The opening pages show a shadow and evoke an dark tale about a mother whose name is not revealed until the last page. A shocking climax and firing on all cylinders is what Nayomi Munaweera has done. The narrator of the story is a wealthy girl from village with a alcoholic father and depressive mother. The girl's childhood is spent with Sita and Samson in the hill town of Kandy and she spends much of her time reading British children's books. The calm and simpleton life is destroyed after the girl is raped and her father dies even her childhood friend Samson dies. Along-with her mother the girl moves to Bay Area in Fremont. At this juncture the book deals with the falsehood of sec