My Sister, the Serial Killer

A Novel

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Oyinkan Braithwaite: My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)

English language

Published Dec. 28, 2018 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-0-385-54424-5
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4 stars (2 reviews)

"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Not that she gets any credit. A kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where Korede works is the bright spot in her life. She dreams of the day when he …

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Subjects

  • Fiction, family life, general
  • Fiction, satire
  • Sisters, fiction
  • Serial murders, fiction
  • Nigeria, fiction
  • Fiction, thrillers, suspense