![]() As Korede tells us, their mother forgot to keep trying for a boy after being taken by her younger sister’s beauty. But Ayoola has been wielding something dangerous since birth. She should be lucky because she only has Ayoola. As the first daughter, it’s her responsibility to mind after her younger siblings. My Sister, the Serial Killer, the debut novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite, is narrated by Korede, a deeply repressed, oldest daughter in a middle-class Lagosian family. But if you do need a bit more, there’s this synopsis to whet any female revenge appetite: “a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends.” ![]() ![]() You don’t even have to notice the poised knife in her view to want to read this. First, it’s the bodacious cover: neon green lettering splattered on a crisp image of a dark-skinned woman in reflector shades. ![]()
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