my sister the serial killer by oyinkan braithwaite

'After all, Ayoola is short - her only flaw, if you consider that to be a flaw - whereas I am almost six feet tall,' Korede explains. He is also the only one whom she tells about her feelings for Tade Otumu, the handsome doctor she's been pining over since the day they met.īut Tade does not feel the same way for her as she does for him, because, as Korde notes, 'It is as though love is only for the beautiful.' Tade does, however, fall for the more gorgeous Ayoola the moment he lays on her, like most men in the sisters' lives tend to do. Her only confidant and the closest thing she has to a friend, Muhtar acts as a kind of confession booth for Korede, who tells him everything about Ayoola and their crimes. Three, and they label you a serial killer,' Korede tells Muhtar, a coma patient at the hospital where she is a nurse. What she doesn't know is whether or not her sister has killed in self-defense as she claims, or if there is something more sinister happening behind Ayoola's picture-perfect eyes. By now, Korede knows how to clean up a murder scene (it's a five-step process), what chemicals mask the smell of blood (when in doubt, use bleach), and where to dump a dead body in Lagos (over the bridge and into the water). 'Ayoola summons me with these words - Korede, I killed him.' At the start of the novel, Ayoola has claimed her third life, and for the third time, Korede, the book's narrator, comes to her aid.

Whenever she claims another life, she calls on her older sister to come clean up her mess - literally and figuratively. The basic premise of Braithwaite's novel is in its title: My Sister, the Serial Killer is about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has developed the nasty habit of murdering her boyfriends. A sly and sinister novel about secrets, sisterhood, and sibling rivalry, My Sister, the Serial Killer asks the question, how far would you be willing to go to protect your family? How far should you go? But in Nigerian novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite's deadly debut, the saying proves itself true. Known for their attention-seeking and risk-taking behaviors, the baby in the family tends to be a troublemaker, one capable of getting away with murder - or so the saying goes.

Apparently, older siblings are typically more responsible, independent, and caregiving, and youngest siblings are usually the complete opposite. According to science, pop culture, and popular opinion, birth order can have a big effect on your psyche and the kind of person you grow up to be.

My sister the serial killer by oyinkan braithwaite