She’s Korede’s polar opposite: sexually confident, though impulsive and disorganized-ultimately helpless until she’s forced to fight off jilted lovers who’ve tried to take advantage of her.īut is she? One of the defter touches of this whip-smart debut is how My Sister, the Serial Killer sows doubt in the mind of its readers about Ayoola’s credulity. Slim but formidable, My Sister, the Serial Killer is based in Lagos and centers on Korede, an ambitious type-A nurse who finds her go-get-em attitude increasingly used in the service of hiding her younger sister Ayoola’s murders. He teaches at SAIC, which is where I got my MFA. Known connections to this year’s contenders: “The only conflict of interest I have pertains to Jesse Ball.
He is a recipient of the James Nelson Raymond Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an Emerging Critics Fellowship from the National Book Critics Circle. His writing has appeared in The New Criterion, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. Howard Rosier lives in Chicago, where he edits the journal Critics’ Union.
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