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Stay with Me
A Literary Fiction Novel by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
Subgenres:
- Contemporary Nigeria,
- Marriage & Relationships,
- Family Drama
This book is for you if you're into...
- Marriage drama set against Nigerian cultural expectations
- Stories where desperate choices spiral into heartbreak
- Dual perspectives that lay bare both sides of a relationship
From Little Stack
Yejide and Akin, a couple in Nigeria, fell in love when they attended university together. Now they’ve been married for four years and Yejide is struggling to become pregnant in a culture that highly values children. So her in-laws bring home a woman to be Akin’s second wife, despite neither of them being interested in polygamy. In response, both Yejide and Akin make a series of rash decisions to preserve their now-vulnerable union.
Your heart will be in your throat as you read the consequences of their choices and what happens to their marriage.
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.
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