How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder Book Club Kit

In How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, award-winning author Nina McConigley delivers a bold, darkly funny, and deeply moving debut novel set in 1980s Wyoming. Through an unforgettable voice, McConigley weaves a story of sisterhood, survival, and the lingering shadows of history—a tale as biting as it is beautiful. With its themes of family, identity, and belonging, this is a sharp, inventive novel guaranteed to spark lively book club conversations.

Our Book Club Kit for How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder includes discussion questions, an author Q&A, a themed cocktail recipe, and more to make your next gathering unforgettable.

“I have been waiting for Nina McConigley’s debut novel for years and it’s even better than I could have imagined. How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder takes all the expected stories about growing up Indian American, slices them open with razor-sharp wit, and turns them inside out. A moving portrayal of sisterhood and a much-needed examination of how power is abused—over girls, over countries, over cultures—and the possibilities, and costs, of reclaiming that power.”
—Celeste Ng, New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts

“A fierce and marvelous book with an utterly unique, brightly burning lifeforce.”
—Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle

“Nina McConigley is a true original. With a wit so sharp that it makes you bleed as soon as it would make you laugh, she slices through the postcolonial dilemma with all of its complexities and absurdities. Heart-mending and heart-breaking—as only the truth can be.”
—Tayari Jones, New York Times bestselling author of An American Marriage

“Spirited and witty, stylish and audacious, How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder is gorgeously in possession of itself. Its avid curiosity about the world, its alertness to history, and its enormously fun storytelling—with a twist at the end—held me in their spell.”
—Megha Majumdar, New York Times bestselling author of A Burning

“Tender, defiant, and formally daring, Nina McConigley’s stunning debut novel How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder is ‘not the expected brown person story’ but rather a tale of sisterhood and survival, a child’s yearning for safety and protection, and the search for wholeness in a world that wants to split you in half. I fell in love with McConigley’s fierce, wry narrator Georgie Ayyar from the first page and couldn’t stop reading. A powerful, groundbreaking book.”
—Jessamine Chan, author of The School for Good Mothers

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