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Recommended Books."Stay with me" by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀.

Updated: Apr 8, 2021


✤ Books that every #women should read. ⁠

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.


⁠✿ Who is this #remarkablewoman ?⁠

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (born 29 January 1988) is a Nigerian writer. Her debut novel Stay With Me was awarded the 9 mobile Prize for Literature in 2019.

Michiko Kakutani in her review of Stay With Me for The New York Times described Adébáyọ̀ as "an exceptional storyteller", adding: "She writes not just with extraordinary grace but with genuine wisdom about love and loss and the possibility of redemption. She has written a powerfully magnetic and heartbreaking book."

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1988; shortly after, her family moved to Ilesa and then to Ile-Ife, where she spent most of her childhood in the University Staff Quarters of Obafemi Awolowo University. She studied at Obafemi Awolowo University, earning BA and MA degrees in Literature in English, and in 2014 she went to study Creative Writing (MA Prose fiction) at the University of East Anglia, where she was awarded an International Bursary.She has also studied with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Margaret Atwood.


✿ You can purchase the book following the link ⁠ . All the profit will support our projects in Africa.



Pic by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

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