Stay with me / A̦ỳobámi Adébá̦ỳo.

  • Adebayo, Ayobami, 1988-
Date:
2017
  • Books

About this work

Description

'There are things even love can't do ...If the burden is too much and stays too long, even love bends, cracks, comes close to breaking and sometimes does break. But even when it's in a thousand pieces around your feet, that doesn't mean it's no longer love ...' 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, appeals to God. But when her relatives insist upon a new wife, it is too much for Yejide to bear. It will lead to jealousy, betrayal and despair. Unravelling against the social and political turbulence of 1980s Nigeria, Stay With Me sings with the voices, colours, joys and fears of its surroundings. Ayobami Adebayo weaves a devastating story of the fragility of married love, the undoing of family, the wretchedness of grief, and the all-consuming bonds of motherhood. It is a tale about our desperate attempts to save ourselves and those we love from heartbreak -- Source other than Library of Congress.

Publication/Creation

Edinburgh : Canongate, 2017.

Physical description

298 pages ; 23 cm

Awards note

Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Shortlist 2017.

Notes

Longlisted for Wellcome Book Prize 2018.

Type/Technique

Languages

Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    UV.AI.149
    Open shelves

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Identifiers

ISBN

  • 9781782119463
  • 1782119469