FMV Book Club: 'Butter Honey Pig Bread' by Francesca Ekwuyasi

Date: 29.06.2026
Time: 18:00-21:00
Host: Female Minority Voices


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For Pride Month, we close the semester with softness, complexity, and healing — through sapphic love, intergenerational longing, and the taste of home.

June’s Book Pick: Butter Honey Pig Bread by Francesca Ekwuyasi
Genre: Literary Fiction
From: Nigeria → Canada

About the book:
This lush, lyrical novel follows twin sisters and their estranged Nigerian mother as they reconnect after years of silence. The story is soaked in food, memory, and longing — navigating trauma, identity, and love between women with tenderness and emotional depth.
It is at once grounded in Yoruba spirituality and expansive in its queer, diasporic intimacy.

Why we chose it:
Ekwuyasi’s novel is a balm — filled with pain, yes, but also with beauty, softness, and a deep yearning for connection. As we mark Pride Month, Butter Honey Pig Bread affirms that love between women deserves space, language, and celebration — especially within diasporic and African narratives.
It’s a book about healing. About choosing love. About returning to ourselves.

Haven’t read the book? Come anyway!
FMV Book Club is about thoughtful conversations sparked by the book’s themes — not perfection. Whether you’ve read it all, just started, or want to listen and learn, you are warmly welcome. Bring a friend!

Join our book club here.

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This event is free and open to all. 

The Bergen Assembly office is universally accessible from street level and our toilets are gender neutral.

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