LoveReading Says
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017.
A surprising, emotional, and courageous novel, one where the words and feelings gradually unwind from the page and take up residence in your mind. Set in Nigeria during the 1980s, this is a story that at first feels like a window into another world, yet one that is somehow recognisable, as feelings are translatable, wherever they may be felt. Yejide desperately wants a child, her entire world collapses when her in-laws insist on her husband Akin marrying a new wife, in order to bear him children. We see the couple, feel their thoughts, the hurt and sorrow on both sides. I couldn't stop reading, yet the rawness, the pain was in every turn of the page. Unexpected revelations smacked into my awareness, turned my thoughts, captivated me further. Ayobami Adebayo, in her debut novel, writes with a clear and simple intensity. ’Stay With Me’ is utterly compelling, provocative, and a truly beautiful read. ~ Liz Robinson
March 2017 Debut of the Month.
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Stay With Me Synopsis
A New York Times Notable Book "A thoroughly contemporary-and deeply moving-portrait of a marriage.... In the lineage of great works by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie." -The New York Times Book Review
Ilesa, Nigeria. Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage-after consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely cures-Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time-until her in-laws arrive on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin's second wife. Furious, shocked, and livid with jealousy, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get pregnant. Which, finally, she does-but at a cost far greater than she could have dared to imagine.
The unforgettable story of a marriage as seen through the eyes of both husband and wife, Stay With Me asks how much we can sacrifice for the sake of family.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781101974414 |
| Publication date: |
10th July 2018 |
| Author: |
Ayobami Adebayo |
| Publisher: |
Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
272 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Family Drama
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