Francesca Ekwuyasi

Roger Mooking is championingButter Honey Pig Breadby Francesca EkwuyasionCanada Reads2021.

Canada Readswill take place March 8-11.The debateswill be hosted byAli Hassanandwill be broadcast onCBC Radio One,CBC TV,CBC Gemand onCBC Books.

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About Francesca Ekwuyasi

Francesca Ekwuyasi is a writer, artist and filmmaker. She wasborn 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 Gutsmagazine. Her story Orun is Heaven was longlisted for the 2019 Journey Prize.Butter Honey Pig Breadis her first novel.

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

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Books by Francesca Ekwuyasi

Interviews withFrancesca 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

TheCanada Reads2021 contenders

• Rosey Edeh championsThe Midnight Bargainby C.L. Polk
• Scott Helman championsTwo Trees Make a Forestby Jessica J. Lee
• Devery Jacobs championsJonny Appleseedby Joshua Whitehead
• Paul Sun-Hyung Lee championsHenchby Natalie Zina Walschots
• Roger Mooking championsButter Honey Pig Breadby Francesca Ekwuyasi