Butter honey pig bread

a novel

317 pages

English language

Published 2020 by Arsenal Pulp Press.

ISBN:
978-1-55152-824-3
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OCLC Number:
1144176715

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"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. …

2 editions

Subjects

  • Families
  • Fiction
  • Familles
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • FICTION / Sagas

Places

  • Nigeria