{"product_id":"butter-honey-pig-bread","title":"Butter Honey Pig Bread","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn intergenerational saga about three Nigerian women: a novel about food, family, and forgiveness.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eButter Honey Pig Bread\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efrancesca ekwuyasi's debut novel tells the interwoven stories of twin sisters, Kehinde and Taiye, and their mother, Kambirinachi. Kambirinachi feels she was born an Ogbanje, a spirit that plagues families with misfortune by dying in childhood to cause its mother misery. She believes that she has made the unnatural choice of staying alive to love her human family and now lives in fear of the consequences of that decision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome of Kambirinachi's worst fears come true when her daughter, Kehinde, experiences a devasting childhood trauma that causes the family to fracture in seemingly irreversible ways. As soon as she's of age, Kehinde moves away and cuts contact with her twin sister and mother. Alone in Montreal, she struggles to find ways to heal while building a life of her own. Meanwhile, Taiye, plagued by guilt for what happened to her sister, flees to London and attempts to numb the loss of the relationship with her twin through reckless hedonism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow, after more than a decade of living apart, Taiye and Kehinde have returned home to Lagos to visit their mother. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pdp-info-header-secondary\" current_variants_id=\"44279863050419\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUt enim ad minim veniam.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQuis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDuis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVelit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExcepteur sint occaecat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCupidatat non proident, sunt.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"pdp-keywords\"\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Staging Store Lost River Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42965239562379,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/dev-store-lost-river-press.myshopify.com\/products\/butter-honey-pig-bread","provider":"Dev Store Lost River Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}