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Writing for me is an act of discovery, I am learning about the characters even as I am writing them. In reality, we rarely know why people do the things they do. I think it is enough, sometimes, to simply point to something and allow the readers to reach their own conclusions.

— Oyinkan Braithwaite

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Source: On the intentions for her novel My Sister, The Serial Killer in “Stuck with Them: An Interview with Oyinkan Braithwaite” in Los Angeles Review of Books (2019 Jan 11)
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