The result is a suspenseful psychological thriller so dizzying this book should come with a side effects warning: readers will arrive at the last page haunted and hungover.
My Sweet Girl is a classic who-done-it novel - only the ‘it’ is an ever-moving target lost in the smoke and mirrors of an intoxicated unreliable narrator. Fortunately, Amanda Jayatissa’s debut novel My Sweet Girl is here to take thrill-seeking readers on a drunken bender around the Bay Area. No matter how out of control Paloma becomes, Jayatissa keeps the reader on her side.Ī surprise twist and a noirish ending further elevate “My Sweet Girl.Presumably, given the ongoing state of the world, many of us have not enjoyed a wild weekend in quite a long time. Scenes alternate from San Francisco to Paloma’s life in the Sri Lankan orphanage, where her personality was established.
Jayatissa delivers a forceful portrait of a young woman teetering on the edge of sanity, prone to violence over the least slight. The police find no body, or any evidence that she even had a roommate. She is estranged from her parents, who cut off her funds because of a secret in her past.įinding the body of her roommate in their squalid apartment, she calls the police before passing out.
That was 18 years ago, and the promise of a perfect life never came.Īlthough her loving parents tried to give her everything - material things, the best education and emotional support - Paloma has always been wracked with guilt that she doesn’t deserve this life, that she abandoned her friends at the orphanage, that her lighter complexion was why she was chosen.Īt age 30, she drinks to excess and hallucinates that she is being stalked by Mohini, a mythic evil spirit who terrified her in the orphanage. Paloma Evans is no sweet girl, though that’s what her wealthy, white adoptive parents called her when they adopted her at age 12 from a Sri Lanka orphanage and brought her to San Francisco.
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