Butterfly Fish is the 2015 debut novel of Nigerian writer Irenosen Okojie. It was published by Jacaranda Books, winning the Betty Trask Prize in 2016.
Plot summary The novel focuses on Joy, a Nigerian London-based photographer who lives with her mother. As the novel progresses, Joy's mother dies leaving her with the family inheritance which includes her grandfather's journal and a bronze from Benin Kingdom, she is tasked grieving for her dead mother and finding her family secrets.
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