Radical Reads is an online book club hosted by the Boston Public Library focusing on literature that critiques and challenges current feminist topics.

Join us on July 13 for a vibrant discussion of Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister, the Serial Killer, following a Nigerian nurse's ethical dilemmas as her sister's third boyfriend turns up dead.

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About the Book:

"Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoolas third boyfriend in a row is dead. Koredes 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 Ayoolas phone number, she must reckon with what her sister has become and how far she's willing to go to protect her.

"My Sister, the Serial Killer is a bombshell of a book — sharp, explosive, hilarious. With a deadly aim, Braithwaite lobs jokes, japes and screwball comedy at the reader. Only after you turn the last page do you realize that, as with many brilliant comic writers before her, laughter for Braithwaite is as good for covering up pain as bleach is for masking the smell of blood." - Fiammetta Rocco, New York Times

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