My sister, the serial killer

a novel

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Oyinkan Braithwaite: My sister, the serial killer (2018, Narrative Landscape Press)

227쪽

언어: English

Published 2018년 3월 25일 by Narrative Landscape Press.

ISBN:
978-978-55723-5-3
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OCLC Number:
1126585624

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"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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Review of 'My Sister, the Serial Killer' on 'Goodreads'

It was good. Not as great as I was expecting based on recommendations, but a really solid novel I'm glad to have read for school. While I wouldn't call the ending a "twist," I liked it and thought it to be unexpected.