Prairie Wife Virtual Book Club: April 2026

Posted April 3, 2026 by Prairie Wife -

It’s time to announce our book for the Prairie Wife Virtual Book Club: April 2026

This monthly Virtual Book Club is all thanks to Wind City Books, an Indie Bookstore in Downtown Casper, Wyoming.

Miranda from Wind City Books can ship our book club book WHEREVER YOU LIVE, so please use the link provided below to purchase your Prairie Wife Book Club books. I strongly encourage buying your book from Wind City Books. You’ll be supporting a local Indie Bookstore, and they can quickly ship the book directly to your home. If you order now, you’ll receive it in plenty of time to finish it before book club. You can also listen to the book through Libro.fm  It works just like Audible, but you have the option to support your local Indie Bookstore with your purchases.

So, how does The Prairie Wife Virtual Book Club Work?

It’s easy (I promise) and available to ANYONE who wants to join.

You don’t need social media because we’re doing it all with Zoom!

At our hour-long Virtual Book Club meeting, we will heavily discuss this month’s book using the questions given below the review as a guide.

HERE IS THE ZOOM LINK FOR THIS MONTH’S VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB: Monday April 27, 2026 at 7 PM MST

How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder: A Novel by Nina McConigley

I’ve been waiting to have “How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder” as our Virtual Book Club Book since October of 2025!

As proof, the picture above is me, Wind City Books Store Owner Miranda, and her amazing son Rhys with the author Nina at an event in Denver last October. What you don’t see in the picture is how I was absolutely fan-girling over Nina. I was so excited to hear her talk about her book, and NOW, at last, it’s time for us to read it. I’m excited to see how Nina portrays Wyoming in this book…and I have my fingers crossed that she may be able to join us for the last part of our book club!

Here’s what the publisher said about the book:

Summer, 1986. The Creel sisters, Georgie Ayyar and Agatha Krishna, welcome their aunt, uncle and young cousin—newly arrived from India—into their house in rural Wyoming where they’ll all live together. Because this is what families do. That is, until the sisters decide that it’s time for their uncle to die.

According to Georgie, the British are to blame. And to understand why, you need to hear her story. She details the violence hiding in their house and history, her once-unshakeable bond with Agatha Krishna, and her understanding of herself as an Indian-American in the heart of the West. Her account is, at every turn, cheeky, unflinching, and infectiously inflected with the trappings of teendom, including the magazine quizzes that help her make sense of her life. At its heart, the tale she weaves is:
a)    a vivid portrait of an extended family
b)    a moving story of sisterhood
c)    a playful ode to the 80s
d)    a murder mystery (of sorts)
e)    an unexpected and unwaveringly powerful meditation on history and language, trauma and healing, and the meaning of independence

Or maybe it’s really:

f)      all of the above.

PREP QUESTIONS FOR END OF MONTH VIRTUAL BOOK CHAT

• What do you think of the book’s title?
• How does it relate to the book’s contents?
• What other title might you choose?
• How did the setting impact the story?
• Which character did you relate to or empathize with the most?
  • Did you agree with the characters’ decisions?
• Which character did you hate?
  • What made you the most upset about what they did?
• What were the primary motivations for the crime, and did they make sense?
• Did the author provide enough clues for you to solve the mystery, or did it feel like information was withheld?
• Do you have any questions for the author?

Categories: Book Reviews, Reviews

Tags: , book club, Fiction, how to commit a postcolonial murder, Indian authors, murder, nina mcconigley, novel, thriller, virtual book club, women authors, wyoming authors