Butter Honey Pig Bread NBLM beloved American community” (George Saunders)

beloved American community” (George Saunders)

a recovering addict from Indiana

millennial life in today’s Detroit

and questions of identity prove that Audrey and Clare have grown too different to understand each other—or that they’ve needed each other all along

Facing a world of outrageous injustice

Butter Honey Pig Bread NBLM beloved American community” (George Saunders)By: Francesca Ekwuyasi 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