A review by emjay24
What Lies Between Us by Nayomi Munaweera

4.0

This book is a fictionalized memoir account, narrated by a woman who grew up in Sri Lanka in the mid-1970s to 1980s, relocating to Fremont, CA as a teen, and who lived in the Mission in San Francisco as an adult. She begins in relatively now time, and then narrates her story beginning when she was born, trying to explain why she is now in jail. Most of the time I forgot she was currently locked up as her story took me in. Beautiful and horrible things mixed together in her descriptions in both Sri Lanka and SF. I live in San Francisco myself, so I enjoyed reading about places I’d been to or passed by, contrasted with the earlier part of the book, Sri Lanka, a place I know almost nothing about. I’m not quite sure that I liked anyone in the book, but they interested me. The author, Nayomi Munaweera has a wonderful writing style, I can’t wait to read more. This was her second book, her first is about the Sri Lankan civil war, which was introduced in this one, but not at depth.