{"product_id":"9781466842281","title":"What Lies Between Us: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the idyllic hill country of Sri Lanka, a young girl grows up with her loving family; but even in the midst of this paradise, terror lurks in the shadows. When tragedy strikes, she and her mother must seek safety by immigrating to America. There the girl reinvents herself as an American teenager to survive, with the help of her cousin; but even as she assimilates and thrives, the secrets and scars of her past follow her into adulthood. In this new country of freedom, everything she has built begins to crumble around her, and her hold on reality becomes more and more tenuous. When the past and the present collide, she sees only one terrible choice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Nayomi Munaweera, the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eIsland of a Thousand Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e, comes the confession of a woman, driven by the demons of her past to commit a single and possibly unforgivable crime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eIsland of a Thousand Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The paradisiacal landscapes of Sri Lanka are as astonishing as the barbarity of its revolution, and Munaweera evokes the power of both in a lyrical debut novel worthy of shelving alongside her countryman Michael Ondaatje or her fellow writer of the multigenerational immigrant experience Jhumpa Lahiri.\" - \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The beating heart of \u003ci\u003eIsland of a Thousand Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e is not so much its human characters but Sri Lanka itself and the vivid, occasionally incandescent, language used to describe this teardrop in the Indian Ocean.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129776849136,"sku":"9781466842281","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466842281_p0.jpg?v=1763686359","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466842281","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}