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A carregar... My Sister, the Serial Killerpor Oyinkan Braithwaite
  
» 25 mais Black Authors (31) Diverse Horror (7) Books Read in 2021 (542) Top Five Books of 2019 (192) Female Author (591) BBC Radio 4 Bookclub (187) Overdue Podcast (310) Indie Next Picks (34) Best Family Stories (229) Female Protagonist (911) Reading 2019 (5) SHOULD Read Books! (158) First Novels (203) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  anushanarasimhan | Aug 25, 2023 |  The book’s title, My Sister, the Serial Killer provides enough information to know what the book is about. Once you get over the matter of factly narration talking about the mysterious men in her sister’s life that end up dying, the novel runs out of steam. The clinical descriptions leave the reader cold. (  ) GordonPrescottWiener | Aug 24, 2023 | Holy shit this book is AMAZING! (  ) blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 | I liked it especially for its insights into Nigerian culture. The plot is clever. Is blood thicker than water even though your sister's boyfriends keep turning up dead? (  ) MilesFowler | Jul 16, 2023 | Short but well designed story with lots of twists and turns. ( ) Chanicole | Jul 6, 2023 |
 Without aiming for a grand narrative or stuffing the prose with political history as Nigerian novelists are often tempted, Braithwaite entertains. Braithwaite does provide a candid take on under-discussed social issues but in place of grand commentary about the government and public life, she looks inward and forces a reflection on the problems of the family, and how families can distort people’s lives. It’s strikingly original. Braithwaite sets the Offspring-like inner workings of the hospital, and an almost Mills & Boon style – sisters squabbling over the central love interest, the too-good-to-be-true Dr Tade – against a ruthless examination of a culture where Korede’s father beats his daughters and wife as he tries to sell Ayoola off to a local chief, who points out the 14-year-old girls he wants to marry with his bejewelled cane. At its heart is the idea of beauty and how far it can take you, how quickly it morphs into ugliness.  In one respect, it’s classic noir: actions have consequences that are inevitable – but the ending is worlds away from that bleak style, and the pitch-black humour, coupled with the sweltering heat of Lagos, gives a very different feel. With a deadly aim, Braithwaite lobs jokes, japes and screwball comedy at the reader. Only after you turn the last page do you realize that, as with many brilliant comic writers before her, laughter for Braithwaite is as good for covering up pain as bleach is for masking the smell of blood. Braithwaite leaves the reader wondering which of these two sisters is more damaged: the killer, or the killer’s faithful rescuer. PrémiosDistinctionsNotable Lists
"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 will realize 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"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I listened to the audiobook while doing chores. The narrator was excellent, but I wish I read it from a physical book and took notes so I can write a proper review. Will probably buy the ebook and read sometime in the future. (