How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder

How to Commit a Postcolonial MurderA bold, inventive, and fiercely original debut novel that begins with an uncle dead and his tween nieces private confession to the readershe and her sister killed him, and they blame the British. Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousinnewly arrived from Indiainto their house in rural Wyoming where theyll all live together. Because this is what families do. That is, until the sisters

she discovers a faith she’d never before needed

With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden

battered by violent weather and extreme politics

never planned on getting involved in the madcap goings-on around him and definitely had no intention of letting certain grumpy innkeepers past his icy walls

receives a death threat

- One section of a brand-new Alagaësia map by Christopher

Alessandra offers companionship rather than answers

which contrast starkly with the flashes of resilience and redemption among the survivors

Cher: The Memoir reveals the daughter

threatening his career

Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie

hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter