Butter Honey Pig Bread
by Francesca Ekwuyasi
- Publication
- First published 2020
- ISBN
- 9781551528243, 9781551528236
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Sign in2021 CANADA READS RUNNER-UPWinner, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers (Writers' Trust of Canada); Longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize; finalist, Governor General's Literary Award; finalist, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; finalist, Lambda Literary Award An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness. *Butter Honey Pig Bread* is a story of choices and their consequences, of motherhood, of the malleable line between the spirit and the mind, of finding new homes and mending old ones, of voracious appetites, of queer love, of friendship, faith, and above all, family. francesca ekwuyasi's debut novel tells the interwoven stories of twin sisters, Kehinde and Taiye, and their mother, Kambirinachi. Kambirinachi feels she was born an Ogbanje, a spirit that plagues families with misfortune by dying in childhood to cause its mother misery. She believes that she has made the unnatural choice of staying alive to love her human family and now lives in fear of the consequences of that decision.
Prize history
- Longlist
