Título: Butter Honey Pig Bread
Autor: Francesca Ekwuyasi
Sinopse: 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 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 two 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.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Butter Honey Pig Bread”, de Francesca Ekwuyasi, publicado pela editora Arsenal Pulp Press, em 2020 e com 368 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Arsenal Pulp Press
Páginas: 368
Ano: 2020-11-03
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Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1551528231
ISBN13: 9781551528236
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Arsenal Pulp Press costumam explorar temas relacionados a identidades de gênero, sexualidade e experiências LGBTQ+, com uma abordagem tanto íntima quanto social. A narrativa frequentemente se apresenta em formatos gráficos e ensaísticos, mesclando vozes pessoais e coletivas que discutem desde a vivência trans até questões indígenas e raciais. O tom varia entre o reflexivo, o poético e o contundente, com ritmo que pode ser tanto meditativo quanto carregado de tensão dramática. O catálogo indica uma atenção especial a histórias que desafiam normas e celebram diversidade, com personagens em busca de aceitação, pertencimento e transformação.
