![]() Braithwaite doesn't mock the murders as comic fodder, and that's just one of the unexpected pleasures of her quirky novel. Evocative of the murderously eccentric Brewster sisters from the classic play and film "Arsenic and Old Lace,". A terrific and clever novel about sisterhood and blurred lines of morality." -REFINERY29 My Sister, The Serial Killer is a wholly original novel where satire and serial killers brush up against each other. "Oyinkan Braithwaite is rewriting the slasher novel, and man, does it look good. LUKE JENNINGS, author of KILLING EVE: Codename Villanelle Disturbing, sly and delicious. PAULA HAWKINS, author of GIRL ON THE TRAIN ![]() Delicious." -NYLON You can't help flying through the pages. At the center of these women's lives is a knot of pain, and when it springs apart, it bloodies the world." -NEW REPUBLIC "This riveting, brutally hilarious, ultra-dark novel is an explosive debut by Oyinkan Braithwaite, and heralds an exciting new literary voice. ![]() But Braithwaite finds in young womanhood a reason to be bitter. That aridity is startling, a trait we might expect from someone older, more jaded-a Cusk, an Offill. "Braithwaite's writing pulses with the fast, slick heartbeat of a YA thriller, cut through by a dry noir wit. This scorpion-tailed little thriller leaves a response, and a sting, you will remember." - NEW YORK TIMES "Campy and delightfully naughty.A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it's the wittiest and most fun murder party you've ever been invited to." - SAM IRBY, MARIE CLAIRE At a time when there are such wholesome and dull claims on fiction-on its duty to ennoble or train us in empathy-there's a relief in encountering a novel faithful to art's first imperative: to catch and keep our attention. There's a seditious pleasure in its momentum. H UFFINGTON POST "It's Lagos noir-pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan.This book is, above all, built to move, to hurtle forward-and it does so, dizzyingly. But when he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she's willing to go to protect her.Ī taut, rapidly paced thriller that pleasurably subverts serial killer and sisterhood tropes for a guaranteed fun afternoon. She dreams of the day when he will realize that she's exactly what he needs. ![]() ![]() Korede has long been in love with a kind, handsome doctor at the hospital where she works. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood (bleach, bleach, and more bleach), the best way to move a body (wrap it in sheets like a mummy), and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures to Instagram when she should be mourning her "missing" boyfriend. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola's knife. Korede's sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER About the Book Slasher meets satire in this darkly comic novel set in Nigeria about a woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.īook Synopsis NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BOOKER PRIZE ![]()
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