Butter Honey Pig Bread
$55.69
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
31 December 2020
Summary
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award, Governor General’s Literary Award, and Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women - Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781551528236 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1551528231 |
| Author: | Francesca Ekwuyasi |
| Publisher: | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| Imprint: | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
“The descriptions throughout the novel, from Taiye’s cooking to the feel of Lagos to the urgency of new love, invite readers to fully savor Ekwuyasi’s language. Mixing emotional depth with supernatural elements, this is a masterful debut.” –Booklist (STARRED REVIEW)
“In this remarkable debut novel, a family of Nigerian women attempt to carefully tiptoe around an unspeakable tragedy. Through masterfully crafted scenes full of sumptuous imagery, readers are moved, just as these characters are, by forces beyond their control, beyond their lifetimes.” –Catherine Hernandez, author of Scarborough
“Butter Honey Pig Bread roves through the ingredients of things that mark the modern, if enduring, currents of familial and amorous bonds by a writer of ample talent.” –Canisia Lubrin, author of The Dyzgraphxst
About The Author
Francesca Ekwuyasi
Francesca Ekwuyasi is a writer and filmmaker originally from Lagos, Nigeria. Her work explores themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness and belonging. Her work has been published in Winter Tangerine Review, Brittle Paper, Transition Magazine, the Malahat Review, Visual Art News, Vol.1 Brooklyn and GUTS magazine. Her story “Ọrun is Heaven” was longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize.
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