"Pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan ... This scorpion-tailed little thriller leaves a response, and a sting, you will remember."--NEW YORK TIMES"The wittiest and most fun murder party you've ever been invited to."--MARIE CLAIREA short, darkly funny, hand grenade of a novel abo
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel
β Scribed by Braithwaite, Oyinkan
- Book ID
- 110201539
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780385544245
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β¦ Synopsis
"Pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan...This scorpion-tailed little thriller leaves a response, and a sting, you will remember."--NEW YORK TIMES"The wittiest and most fun murder party youβve ever been invited to."--MARIE CLAIREA 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 Ayoolaβs third boyfriend in a row is dead. Koredeβs practicality is the sistersβ 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.Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She dreams of the day when he will realize that sheβs exactly what he needs. But when he asks Korede for Ayoolaβs phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far sheβs willing to go to protect her.Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaiteβs deliciously deadly debut is as fun as it is frightening.
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