A 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.
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.
Sharp as nails and
full of deadpan wit, Oyinkan Braithwaite’s deliciously deadly debut
is as fun as it is frightening.