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Stay With Me
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Winner of the 2018 9mobile Prize for Literature. Winner of the 2020 Prix Les Afriques. Shortlisted for the Baileys Prize for Women’s Fiction, the Wellcome Book Prize and the Kwani? Manuscript. Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award Prize.
Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything – arduous pilgrimages, medical consultations, dances with prophets, appeals to God. But when her in-laws insist upon a new wife, it is too much for Yejide to bear. It will lead to jealousy, betrayal and despair.
Unraveling against he social and political disturbance of 80s Nigeria, Stay With Me sings with the voices, colours, joys and fears of the time. This is a devastating story of the fragility of married love, the undoing of family, the wretchedness of grief, and the all-consuming bonds of motherhood.
Stay With Me is a tale about our desperate attempts to save ourselves and those we love from heartbreak.
BOOK INFORMATION
AUTHOR: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
ISBN: 978-978-959-320-0
GENRE(S): Literary Fiction
FORMAT: Paperback
NUMBER OF PAGES: 284
PUBLICATION DATE: 10 April 2017
PUBLISHER: Ouida Books
IMPRINT: Ouida
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