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Butter Honey Pig Bread by francesca ekwuyasi

16 reviews

emath98's review

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

It felt a little slow getting started, but ended as a beautiful and magical character study of a family of complex women. The descriptions of food left me drooling!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicide attempt, and Outing

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, and Alcohol

casira's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Car accident, Outing, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Lesbophobia and Colonisation

anaisqsn's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Incest, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual content, Dementia, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Homophobia, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Murder, Outing, and Alcohol

christineplum's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcohol

bessjoyce's review

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Fantastic storytelling and clever techniques such as the narration perspective 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Miscarriage, Racism, Sexual content, Death of parent, and Alcohol

emma_b_rhodes's review

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book has everything! It's magical, weaving, and full of grief and yearning. It's gay, sexy, and deeply invested in sisterhood and family. This book is healing. 10/10 recommend 💫

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Body shaming, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Religious bigotry, Murder, Outing, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Racism, Colonisation, and Classism

axel_p's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

OMG, I absolutely loved this book.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Islamophobia, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

headinthepages's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

This is such a beautifully written book, one you luxuriate in and savour for every word, sentence and page. 

I absolutely loved the characters and the way their stories intertwined. I loved their complex relationships with each other and themselves, and the secondary characters were brilliant. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

tina94's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Miscarriage, Rape, Grief, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming and Suicide

jayisreading's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This was a stunning story following three women—a mother (Kambirinachi) and her twin daughters (Kehinde and Taiye)—and the complex grief and trauma  they each carried. The story switches between past and present, between locations, with everything coming together in Lagos, the three of them reunited years later and having to confront the traumatic event that broke them apart.

This book is a deep dive into family relationships—particularly between the sisters—but it is also a beautiful reflection on motherhood, platonic and romantic love (particularly queer love), and reconciliation. Ekwuyasi crafted her characters beautifully and poignantly, giving the reader time to pause and reflect with them on these themes. Significantly, another running theme in this book is the power of food. Cooking and eating become intimate moments of introspection and conversation that peel the layers of each character and lay them bare. It really emphasizes how food is more than just food; it's a moment to commune and share a moment that becomes engraved as memory.

Ekwuyasi is an incredible writer, on top of that. Her lyrical prose will draw you in, and her food descriptions in particular will leave you hungry. Seriously, try not to read this book on an empty stomach.

This book isn’t a lighthearted read by any means. There are a lot of dark moments that may be triggering (e.g., rape, miscarriage, suicide, etc.) that come up, but I felt they were handled with sensitivity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming