Full name: Stay with Me: A novel

Author: Ayobami Adebayo Year: 2017 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction, Contemporary Culture: Africa Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780451494603 0451494601

Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage--after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures--Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time--until her family arrives 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. An electrifying novel of enormous emotional power, Stay With Me asks how much we can sacrifice for the sake of family. Similar books: I Do Not Come to You by Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole Measuring Time by Helon Habila Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma Graceland by Chris Abani The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi Happiness Sold Separately by Lolly Winston And After Many Days by Jowhor Ile Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta Tiny Sunbirds Far Away by Christie Watson Oil on Water by Helon Habila A Bit of Difference by Sefi Atta Foreign Gods, Inc. by Okey Ndibe Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum The Road Home by Rose Tremain A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne