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Butter honey pig bread : a novel (book club kit - fiction) / Francesca Ekwuyasi.

by Ekwuyasi, Francesca, 1990-

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Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020

BOOK CLUB KIT FICTION EKW

Families -- Fiction.

Nigeria -- Fiction.

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Information kit for "Butter honey pig bread : a novel"

9781551528236 (trade pbk.)

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Book club kit : Butter honey pig bread : a novel

Bookclub kit : Butter honey pig bread : a novel

10 copies, 317 p. ; 23 cm.

Holds can be placed via the Request Form on our website. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the kit, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available.

Ideal for your Book Club or Reading Group. This kit includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 10 copies of Francesca Ekwuyasi's "Butter honey pig bread : a novel", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The kit is available to borrow for 6 weeks.

"An intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness. 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 childhood to cause a human mother misery. She has made the unnatural choice of staying alive to love her human family but lives in fear of the consequences of her decision. Kambirinachi and her daughters become estranged from one another because of a trauma that Kehinde experiences in childhood, which leads her to move away and cut off all contact. She ultimately finds her path as an artist and seeks to raise a family of her own, despite her fear that she won't be a good mother. Meanwhile, Taiye is plagued by guilt for what her sister suffered and also runs away, attempting to fill the void of that lost relationship with casual flings with women. She eventually discovers a way out of her stifling loneliness through a passion for food and cooking. But now, after more than a decade of living apart, Taiye and Kehinde have returned home to Lagos. It is here that the three women must face each other and address the wounds of the past if they are to reconcile and move forward. For readers of African diasporic authors such as Teju Cole and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 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."--Publisher.

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