2021 Canada Reads Shortlist

"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....

Traduit de l'anglais par Arianne Des Rochers Résumé Vivant hors réserve et cherchant tant bien que mal à s'acclimater à la vie urbaine, Jonny devient travailleur du cybersexe pour gagner sa vie. Il a devant lui très exactement une semaine avant de devoir rentrer à la réserve pour assister aux funérailles de son beau-père. Les sept jours qui suivent se déclinent comme un rêve enfiévré: histoires d'amour, traumatismes, sexe, liens familiaux,...

After unearthing a hidden memoir of her grandfather's life, Jessica J. Lee seeks to piece together the fragments of her family's history as they moved from China to Taiwan, and then on to Canada. But as she navigates the tumultuous terrain of Taiwan, Lee finds herself having to traverse fissures in language, memory, and history, as she searches for the pieces of her family left behind.