Book Review: My Sister, the Serial Killer

Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, the Serial Killer uses the expansiveness of the prose form to ask, ‘how far can we go for people we love?’ Entertaining but dark, Oyinkan Braithwaite’s debut novel, My Sister, the Serial Killer, enthrals readers with its wit, its refreshing narrative style and its refusal to be conditioned by Nigeria’s moral lenses. This debut depicts pain in its different forms and examines family ties in a web of murders. Korede, a nurse and carer bound by medical et

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