Francesca Ekwuyasi

Roger Mooking is championing Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi on Canada Reads 2021.

Canada Reads will take place March 8-11. The debates will be hosted by Ali Hassan and will be broadcast on CBC Radio One, CBC TV, CBC Gem and on CBC Books. 

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About Francesca Ekwuyasi

Francesca Ekwuyasi is a writer, artist and filmmaker. She was born in Lagos, Nigeria and currently is based in Halifax. Her work explores themes of faith, family, queerness, consumption, loneliness and belonging. Her writing has been published in Winter Tangerine Review, Brittle Paper, Transition Magazine, the Malahat Review, Visual Art News, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Guts magazine. Her story Orun is Heaven was longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize. Butter Honey Pig Bread is her first novel.

Butter Honey Pig Bread was longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize. (From Arsenal Pulp Press)

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Books by Francesca Ekwuyasi

Interviews with Francesca Ekwuyasi

The Sunday Magazine10:53How food can be its own language with author Francesca Ekwuyasi

We kick off an ongoing focus on what food can reveal about life, culture and society with Francesca Ekwuyasi, the Nigerian-Canadian novelist behind the Giller Prize longlisted novel Butter Honey Pig Bread. She speaks with Chattopadhyay about the role food plays in complex family dynamics and how cooking can be a way of expressing care, regret, desire for forgiveness, and more. For more, visit: www.cbc.ca/1.5737303 10:53

The Canada Reads 2021 contenders

• Rosey Edeh champions The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk
• Scott Helman champions Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee
• Devery Jacobs champions Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
• Paul Sun-Hyung Lee champions Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
• Roger Mooking champions Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi