My Sister, the Serial Killer
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Oyinkan Braithwaite
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Nominated for the Booker Prize 2019.
Shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favourite 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 will realise they're perfect for each other. But one day Ayoola shows up to the hospital uninvited and he takes notice. When he asks Korede for Ayoola's phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and what she will do about it. Sharp as nails and full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite has written a deliciously deadly debut that's as fun as it is frightening.
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Kritikerstimmen
"A literary sensation." (Guardian)
"A bombshell of a book.... Sharp, explosive, hilarious." (New York Times)
The author does an excellent job setting the scene in present-day Lagos with its police corruption, casual misogyny, and the social strata at play. "All men want the same thing", Ayoola says at one point, and is promptly proven right. As indicated by the blurb, this book offers scathing social commentary on the state of things in Nigeria, which can easily be extrapolated from for the rest of the world.
But boy, did I drag my feet towards the end. I didn't listen to the last 40 minutes for an entire week, because I had the distinct impression that I was gonna struggle with the denouement. I did, and still do. I'm fully on board with Chicks Before D*cks, but surely, there could be some compromise?
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Story of sibling rivalry and extreme loyalty
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