Reading beyond recipe books

Ok, this is not another of Atwood's dystopic fiction. Rather, it is a book on debts, its meaning and famous examples of debts. Peppered throughout the book are references on the historical facts of famous debts and creditors, the Christian take on debts. Of note and special mention is Faustus and Scrooge,  each an anti example of each other. Millers, mills and miller's daughters mentioned in the Canterbury tales, Don Quixote and many other classics opens our eyes in how society sees industrialists as conniving thieves. One thing that keeps coming up,"Without memory, there is no debt" and so a clean slate with outstanding debts is forgotten. Most uprising will include the burning of the accounts book so that debts need not be repaid. Payback simply opens up into another world of classics. A good read!

This book was long listed for the 2019 Booker Prize, which makes it a must-read for me. The story is set in Lagos, Nigeria. It is a story of a family of 2 girls from an upper class family. Koreda, the narrator of the story, is a nurse in a famous hospital. Her younger sister, Ayoola, is beautiful beyond description but beneath the beauty lies a dark character. The story commences with the murder of Ayoola's 3rd boyfriend and Koreda was called up to clean up the aftermath of the deed. The reader does not know exactly the childhood horrors experienced by the angel murderess and her sister except that behind the facade of a gracious family lived an abusive father until he died. The insinuation is that the murders of Ayoola's boyfriends is a psychological retaliation to her past abuses by powerful and lustful men. Sisterly relationship  made the two partners in crime until the affable Dr Tade becomes attracted to his Ayoola, his head nurse our narrator, who als