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Francesca Ekwuyasi’s debut novel tells the interwoven stories of twin sisters, Kehinde and Taiye, and their mother, Kambirinachi. Kambirinachi feels she was born an Ogbanje, a spirit that plagues families with misfortune by dying in childhood to cause its mother misery. She believes that she has made the unnatural choice of staying alive to love her human family and now lives in fear of the consequences of that decision.

The Pig Farmer’s Wife drops the listener into the Second Wave of Feminism—a time when women were prohibited from managing their own finances, acquiring a bank loan, or owning a credit card in her own name. It was a brave woman who dared to express opinions that differed from her husbands, and unheard of for a woman to begin a business of any type, let alone an all-female owned and operated one. Coincidentally, it was also when the birth control pill was introduced to the nation, and that changed everything, because for the first time in history, women had the ability to plan her family size.