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‘My Sister, the Serial Killer’
Nigerian writer Oyinkan Braithwaite’s first novel is set in Lagos and, as its startling title suggests, it revolves around two sisters – one good, one not so much. Korede is an efficient, highly responsible nurse. Ayoola is a freelance fashion designer and heartless seductress. Capricious, willful, and without conscience, Ayoola has developed the unfortunate habit of killing her boyfriends – three as of the novel’s start.
Following each fatality, she has called upon her competent older sister Korede to help her dispose of the body. Refreshingly strange and ghoulishly funny at times, the story also has a tragic side, revealed in flashbacks depicting the brutality of the girls’ father. Back in the present, Korede is smitten with Tade, a doctor – but he has become enamored of Ayoola and establishes himself as her beau. Uh, oh.
Narrator Adepero Oduye’s versatility with characters’ voices and her wonderful adeptness with various forms and manners of Nigerian speech add verisimilitude to this unusual story. (Random House Audio, Unabridged, 4 1/2 hours)
‘The Year of the Pitcher: Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, and the End of Baseball’s Golden Age’
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He explores in-depth the racial intolerance Gibson faced and McLain’s ties to organized crime and looks, too, at the toll taken on both men’s arms in an era innocent of pitch counts, and at the rising demand for players’ rights. This is a great book that combines biography, social history and astute character study.
Narrated in a warm, lucid voice, Leon Nixon delivers the thrilling baseball action with all the brio it warrants. (Tantor, Unabridged, 13 hours)
‘Top Dog’
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The suspense is terrific – and narrator Jon Lindstrom delivers the action clearly and calmly. He manages the welter of voices, keeping one separate from the other, and beautifully captures the irony that underpins much of the story. (Random House Audio, Unabridged, 18 1/3Â hours)
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