There are a few things that make this even more complicated for Paloma: First, she passes out upon discovery of the body, and when she wakes, Arun's body is gone and the apartment is spotless. It's in the midst of all this that Paloma stumbles home to find her roommate Arun dead - murdered in their apartment. She's also had a fight with her parents and is probably drinking more than is strictly healthy for her. She's trying to get her graphic design business off the ground, but the circumstances around her, as well as the struggles of her own past, are affecting her mental health enough that she can't concentrate on her work. In My Sweet Girl, Paloma is the living embodiment of every older millennial freelancer. Her simmering anger instantly spoke to me, because it's something that many Asian American people can understand: exhaustion from having to play the part of the model minority. She's unlikeable from the start - impatient, frustrated, and entirely disinterested in making a good impression on the reader or anyone else around her. The first time I opened My Sweet Girl, a debut psychological thriller from author Amanda Jayatissa, I instantly took to the main character, Paloma.
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