![]() ![]() Does this kind of sentence her to a lifetime of cleaning up for her younger sister?īRAITHWAITE: You know, the two of them - in my mind, they're sort of two sides of the same coin, and - because, you know, with family, you often find yourself playing set roles. SIMON: Well, tell us about these two sisters. SIMON: That's quite a premise for a book. Her book is "My Sister, The Serial Killer."Īnd Oyinkan Braithwaite, who was a 2016 finalist for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, joins us from Lagos, Nigeria. ![]() But how do you love or cover up for a sister who kills her boyfriends and then develops a fixation for a man whom you long to love? Do you tip him off? Do you stop your sister? Or do you stand back? That's the plot at the heart of a dark comedy enlivened by a deadpan wit by the Nigerian novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite. ![]() Siblings love, disparage, look out for and cover up for one another all of their lives. ![]()
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