“My Sweet Girl” was acquired by Hodder & Stroguhton, the UK publishing house in a two book deal for the Sri Lankan author. “The Other One,” which was a science fiction novel that she self published, was the winner of the 2017 Fairway National Literary Competition.
While she made her name with her literary fiction work “My Sweet Girl,” this is not her first rodeo.
Her Linked In profile says she is a corporate trainer in communications skills development and co-owner of a chain of cookie stories with her husband. She would then live for a while in the United Kingdom before she moved back to California. In the US, she went to Mills College in California for her undergraduate degree. The author grew up in Sri lanka and moved to the United States in her teenage years. (Sept.Amanda Jayatissa is a literary fiction author from Sri Lanka best known for her debut novel “My Sweet Girl.” Agent: Melissa Danaczko, Stuart Krichevsky Literary. Jaytissa expertly ratchets up the tension. Paloma is either losing her grip on reality, or her secret past has caught up with her. Meanwhile, she’s also started spotting Mohini, a mythic evil spirit who terrified her when she was a child in Sri Lanka. The building super allows Paloma to review the hallway surveillance tape, and the only person she sees is herself, taking cleaning supplies from the supply closet.
The body has disappeared without a trace. Or are they? When she discovers her roommate murdered in her San Francisco apartment, she calls the police and passes out in the hallway. After her parents go on an extended charity tour of Sri Lanka, Paloma drinks herself into blackouts, and perhaps hallucinations. Paloma’s life should be perfect, but she’s never felt she deserves her privileged life. Thirty-year-old Paloma Evans was adopted at 12 from an orphanage in Sri Lanka by wealthy, loving American parents. Sri Lankan author Jayatissa debuts with a dark, twisty psychological thriller.
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