Cursed Daughters Paperback by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Product Details

• Publisher: Anchor Canada (2026-10-27)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 384 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780385701426
• Item Weight: 277.83 grams
• Dimensions: 20.27 x 13.13 x 2.03 cm

A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK • A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry, and superstition from the author of the smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer (“A bombshell of a book . . . Sharp, explosive, hilarious.” —The New York Times)

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, INDIGO, USA TODAY

When Ebun gives birth to her daughter, Eniiyi, on the day they bury her cousin Monife, there is no denying the startling resemblance between the child and the dead woman. So begins the belief, fanned by the entire family, that Eniiyi is the actual reincarnation of Monife, fated to follow in her footsteps.

There is also the matter of the family curse: "No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace"—which has broken numerous hearts and caused three  generations of abandoned Falodun women to live under the same roof. 

When Eniiyi falls in love she can no longer run from her family’s history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak? Or can she break the pattern, not only avoiding the spiral that led Monife to her lonely death, but liberating herself from all the family secrets and unspoken traumas that have dogged her steps since before she could remember?

Cursed Daughters is a brilliant cocktail of vibrant humor and hard-won wisdom, romantic love and familial obligation. It asks us what it means to be given a second chance and how to live both wisely and well with what we’ve been given.

About the Author

OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE is a Nigerian-British novelist and writer. Her first novel, My Sister, the Serial Killer, was published in 2018 to wide acclaim and was translated into more than thirty languages. It was an international bestseller, longlisted for the Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and won the Crime and Thriller Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. She lives in London.