How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder
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'A fierce and marvelous book with an utterly unique, brightly burning lifeforce' MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD, author of GREAT CIRCLE
'Tender, defiant, and formally daring . . . I fell in love with McConigley's fierce, wry narrator Georgie Ayyar from the first page and couldn't stop reading. A powerful, groundbreaking book' JESSAMINE CHAN, author of THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS In the summer of 1986, the Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyars and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and two young cousins - newly arrived from India - into their house in rural Wyoming where they will all live together. Because this is what families do. That is until the sisters decide that it's time for one of their newly arrived family members to die.How to Commit a Post-colonial Murder is many things. It is a vivid portrait of an extended family; the moving story of the relationship between two sisters; a murder mystery (of sorts); a love letter to the 1980s; a formally-inventive amalgam of first-person narration, pen pal letters, and teen-magazine-style quizzes; and a powerful meditation on race, language, colonialism, trauma, and the meaning of independence.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9780349725369
- Author: Nina McConigley
- Pub date: 20.01.26
- RRP: $37.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Nina McConigley
Nina McConigley is the author of the acclaimed story collection Cowboys and East Indians, which won the PEN Open Book and High Plains Book Awards, and was longlisted for the 2014 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Orion, O, the Oprah Magazine, VQR and elsewhere. McConigley holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, an MA in English from the University of Wyoming, and a BA in Literature from Saint Olaf College. She teaches at Colorado State University and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She and her family live in Wyoming.