'Even better than I could have imagined . . . [it] takes all the expected stories about growing up Indian American, slices them open with razor-sharp wit, and turns them inside out' CELESTE NG, author of OUR MISSING HEARTS

'Nina McConigley is a true original . . . Heart-mending and heart-breaking - as only the truth can be' TAYARI JONES, author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE

'A fierce and marvellous book with an utterly unique, brightly burning lifeforce' MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD, author of GREAT CIRCLE

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.