GoodReads (Print) How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder Book Giveaway
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Enter the GoodReads giveaway for How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder by Nina McConigley. It’s the summer of 1986, and the Creel sisters, along with Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, are adjusting to life with their aunt, uncle, and young cousin, newly arrived from India, at their home in rural Wyoming. It’s the kind of arrangement families take on without question, at least until the sisters decide their uncle has to go.
Georgie insists the British are ultimately at fault, and to understand why, you have to hear her version of events. She recounts the hidden violence threaded through their home and history, her once‑inseparable bond with Agatha Krishna, and her evolving sense of identity as an Indian‑American girl growing up in the American West. Her voice is sharp, funny, and unfiltered, shaped by the rituals of teenage life, including the magazine quizzes she uses to decode her world.
What she delivers is simultaneously a portrait of a sprawling family, a tender story of sisterhood, a nostalgic nod to the 80s, a sort of murder mystery, and a powerful reflection on history, language, trauma, healing, and what independence really means. Or, more accurately, all of the above.
