![]() ![]() Korede, who has inherited her mother’s plain looks, has chosen the pursuit of excellence. In a society which prizes beauty in women far more highly than brains, Ayoola can do anything she likes. ![]() Ayoola is feckless, enabled by her beauty. All the more so when we learn that she’s a nurse.Īs the story progresses, we learn that Korede is the practical, sensible, very particular sister who insists that a job is done well, who cooks for her sister and mother, who protects them from the dangers of the world. In the same way that Léon’s ruthless efficiency in Luc Besson’s film isn’t appalling, the way Korede goes about her work is somehow fascinating. So detached is Korede, that she is able to appraise the physical attributes of her sister’s dead boyfriend. He looked like a man who could survive a couple of flesh wounds … It was a shame to think that death would whittle away at his broad shoulders and concave abs, until he was nothing more than bone. In the midst of sorting out her sister’s mess, Korede makes the following observation. From Korede we get only information on how best to clean up the evidence and dispose of the body. No mitigation is offered, no explanation other than sisterhood is given to explain Korede’s willingness to abet her sister in her crime. All we know is that Ayoola and her boyfriend Femi have had a falling out and Ayoola has stabbed him. The novel opens with the aftermath of the third killing, with Korede calmly and efficiently coming to her sister’s rescue. This is the situation Korede finds herself in when her sister Ayoola kills three of her boyfriends on the trot.Īlthough the subject matter is very different, the style of Oyinkan Braithwaite’s novel reminded me of Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay With Me and a little of Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen, particularly in the rhythms of Nigerian life and speech, and the differences between the male and female experience of society. What do you do when your sister keeps killing her boyfriends? You become her Cleaner. ![]() ![]() Tags 6degrees 20 Books of Summer 1001 Books Africa America Art Australia Autobiography Biography Black culture Black history Blogging about blogging Book review Britain Canada Cats Comedy Crime Dystopia Economics England Fantasy Feminism Film France Germany Graphic novel Historical fiction History Horror Humour Independent Publisher India Influx Press Italy Japan Journalism LGBTQ London Mental health Meta Music Mystery New York Paris Philosophy Picture Prompt Book Bingo Poetry Politics Psychology Racism Randomness Religion Russia Science Science Fiction SciFi Scotland Short stories Six Degrees of Separation Sociology Spain Speculative fiction Sweden Thriller Tokyo Translation Travel United Kingdom USA Wales War Women's Prize for Fiction Women in translation Women in translation month ![]()
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