
My Sister, the Serial Killer
By Oyinkan Braithwaite
2018
Summary
BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • “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.” —MARIE CLAIRE Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. 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. 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 she’s exactly what he needs. 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.
Reviews and Comments
1 reviewsIf you haven’t read this book, you definitely need to! It’s a book set in Lagos Nigeria, about a nurse whose ‘conventionally’ more beautiful younger sister is a serial killer. It gives a good insight into how the older sister younger sister relationship can be - as someone with an older and younger sibling, I could relate so well with the protagonist’s struggles. One of the best things about the book was how it quite literally didn’t come to a ‘clean end’, because that isn’t how life is. I love pieces of art that give you the chance to conclude the story whichever way you choose. I hated the fact that the protagonist didn’t seem to find peace at the end of the book - but it was a fantastic read anyways.




