What Lies Between Us

from vancouverdeb

Amma and Thatha are the parents of young Ganga, the narrator. Born in Sri Lanka, Ganga senses perhaps her parents are not as happily married as they would like Ganga and others to to believe. Amma spends much time sleeping during the day and Ganga hears muffled arguments coming from her parents b...

from Beamis12

The long reach of the past and the unreliability of memory are two prominent themes of this novel. Our unnamed narrator, though in Sri Lanka she was known as baby Madame, is the main character and we follow her life from a young child in Sri Lanka to adulthood in the USA. From the beginning we kn...

from kellifrobinson

I knew that I would be emotionally wrecked by this novel from the story of the moon bear in the Prologue. Read those first two pages for a virtual map of the dark and sad story to come - a foreboding that lasts for the next 300+ pages. You know how this one is going to end before you start, and e...

from MomMom46

This remarkable book was a beautifully written story filled with profound sadness. It took me awhile to understand the double meaning of the word "lies" in the book's title. The novel was written as the main character's confession for her unforgivable crime.The demons of her childhood in the hill...

from msbaba

"What Lies Between Us," by award-winning author Nayomi Munaweera, is a dark and atmospheric tale of trauma, dissociation, obsessive love, and psychosis masterfully narrated in exquisite prose. It is a novel of perceptive psychological depth, a novel of satisfying forensic texture, and a novel of ...