Let me share Sri Lankan author Amanda Jayatissa’s short bio because Barbara Peters, owner of The Poisoned Pen, asked her about cookies.
Amanda Jayatissa grew up in Sri Lanka, completed her undergrad at Mills College in California and lived in the UK before moving back to her sunny little island. She works as a corporate trainer, owns a chain of cookie stores, and is a proud dog mum to her two spoiled huskies.
Jayatissa talks about cookies and her new book, My Sweet Girl, in a recent virtual event. It’s a fun event, and Jayatissa spoke for readers in the morning from her home in Sri Lanka. Her book is available through the Web Store, and there are signed book plates that will accompany your books. https://bit.ly/3AwyMHl
Here’s the description of My Sweet Girl.
“Fiendish, full-of-twists…Sri Lankan author Amanda Jayatissa keeps us guessing and worrying until the very end”—The New York Times
“A thriller centered on the meaning of identity and all the layers it can have.”—NPR
A Most Anticipated Novel of Fall 2021 by Entertainment Weekly, NPR, New York Post, The Boston Globe, Fortune, Buzzfeed, Goodreads, Shondaland, PopSugar, Bustle, Crime Reads, BookRiot, Crime by the Book, The Nerd Daily, The Every Girl, and more!
Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but she’s about to find out that no matter how far you run, your past always catches up to you…
Ever since she was adopted from a Sri Lankan orphanage, Paloma has had the best of everything—schools, money, and parents so perfect that she fears she’ll never live up to them.
Now at thirty years old and recently cut off from her parents’ funds, she decides to sublet the second bedroom of her overpriced San Francisco apartment to Arun, who recently moved from India. Paloma has to admit, it feels good helping someone find their way in America—that is until Arun discovers Paloma’s darkest secret, one that could jeopardize her own fragile place in this country.
Before Paloma can pay Arun off, she finds him face down in a pool of blood. She flees the apartment but by the time the police arrive, there’s no body—and no evidence that Arun ever even existed in the first place.
Paloma is terrified this is all somehow tangled up in the desperate actions she took to escape Sri Lanka so many years ago. Did Paloma’s secret die with Arun or is she now in greater danger than ever before?
Enjoy the conversation with Amanda Jayatissa.