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What Lies Between Us

What Lies Between Us

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I often preface any A Little Life recommendations with a 'be careful - it can be very graphic and impactful' but I don't think I feel compelled to do that with this novel). view spoiler) [Hi John , our book club in Perth , Australia will be discussing your book " What lies between us" next week and a few of us are of different opinions of whether or not Nina was abused by her father.

This story was difficult and painful to read at times and is a reminder of the lifelong effects of child sexual abuse and particularly incest.Nayomi Munaweera has crafted a lyrical, dramatic, intense narrative that flows beautifully, yet keeps the reader ever off-balance with unstable characters, shifting truths, and taut foreshadowing.

We understand the protagonist is a woman who for her crime often receives hate mail from mothers and marriage proposals from men. In between is the recounting of a life, a shaping of past circumstances that speak to Ganga's the current devastation. The story reads like a memoir as we follow the thoughts and confessions of this young girl as she is forced . There weren't any massive surprises (though there were a couple of "tail kinks", not quite twists but definitely bends) but the development of the story was sufficiently convoluted, that I was held riveted until the end.You mean no more to me than the shutters that hide what goes on in here, the floorboards I walk over or the doors we use to separate us.

They say every house has its secrets, and the house that Maggie and Nina have shared for so long is no different.

Having always looked towards her cousin as the epitome of modern, something she aspired to, it is a shock to learn of her upcoming arranged marriage, she agrees to be bridesmaid, despite strong feelings to the contrary, grateful that her mother, though troubled, knows better than to push her daughter in this direction.

After a series of tragedies that occur when Ganga is a pre-teen, she and her mother immigrate to the Bay Area. And while some things weren’t completely surprising to me for I’ve guessed it already, it surprisingly didn’t affect my enjoyment for this book. We arrive in a hill city of Kandy in Sri Lanka where she recounts her solitary, yet idyllic childhood, among the scent of tropical gardens, a big old house, 'sweeping emerald lawns leading down to the rushing river' overlooked by monsoon clouds. I'm 100% in the minority with my thoughts here, so I encourage you to pick this one up and experience it for yourself, as it is guaranteed to hold your attention with it's small cast of extremely unlikable characters. I need to try more John Marrs because he certainly knows how to hook a reader and I appreciate how he enthrals his readers.This page-turning thriller about a daughter who has imprisoned her mother in the attic kept me guessing and surprised, but the characters are so vile they made me question my faith in humanity. As an adult living in the United States, she becomes—as we learn in the book's opening pages—the perpetrator of a most unspeakable crime. But there are many things about the past that Nina doesn’t know, and Maggie is going to keep it that way - even if it kills her. I really enjoyed the descriptions of the culture and traditions of Sri lanka and how upon moving to America their lives are affected and influenced by the people around them. Such a wonderful surprise as I read it not having any information about it except that a reader that I trust saying that it affected her as much as A Little Life.



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