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It’s the summer of 1986, and the Creel sisters have decided it’s time for their uncle to die. Georgia Ayyar and Agatha Krishna have just welcomed their Indian aunt, uncle and cousin into their rural Wyoming home. But as the sisters’ once-unshakeable bond begins to unravel and the violence in their house and history intensifies, the tweens kill their uncle and blame it all on the British.
A bold, inventive tale that’s unflinchingly honest and infectiously inflected with the trappings of teendom, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder offers a vivid portrait of an extended family, a moving story of sisterhood, and a playful ode to the 80s — all packaged as a murder mystery (of sorts).
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Q&A with Nina McConigley.
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