{"id":2288,"date":"2023-12-24T17:28:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T01:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2023-12-24T17:28:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T01:28:54","slug":"book-my-sister-the-serial-killer-by-oyinkan-braithwaite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/24\/book-my-sister-the-serial-killer-by-oyinkan-braithwaite\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"295\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mysisterserialkiller.jpeg\" alt=\"Cover of the book Book &quot;My Sister, The Serial Killer&quot; by Oyinkan Braithwaite\" class=\"wp-image-2289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mysisterserialkiller.jpeg 295w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/mysisterserialkiller-197x300.jpeg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My Sister, The Serial Killer <br><\/strong>by Oyinkan Braithwaite<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/588860\/my-sister-the-serial-killer-by-oyinkan-braithwaite\/\">published by Penguin Random House<br><\/a>2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first time Ayoola calls her doting older sister, Kerede, to say that she&#8217;s in a bad situation and Kerede finds her covered in blood, it is stressful.  The second time Ayoola insists  another man had scared her tiny self, and that this man is dead, Kerede helps her unquestioningly.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>But the third time?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one could possibly think ill of angelic, beautiful Ayoola.  No one would even believe Kerede if she told them &#8211; surely they would say she is mean due to jealousy, because she is so plain-looking!  So Kerede pours her heart out to a comatose man at the hospital where she works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But now Kerede wants someone who isn&#8217;t comatose to believe her, because Ayoola is going out of her way to attract the man Kerede cares about most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a lively tale of family dynamics, trying to survive the patriarchy, loyalty, workplace crushes, the societal currency of being attractive, and the many uses of bleach.  I was completely engrossed! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaitepublished by Penguin Random House2019 The first time Ayoola calls her doting older sister, Kerede, to say that she&#8217;s in a bad situation and Kerede finds her covered in blood, it is stressful. The second time Ayoola insists another man had scared her tiny self, and that this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2023\/12\/24\/book-my-sister-the-serial-killer-by-oyinkan-braithwaite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Book: My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[259,69],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-beauty","tag-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}