Stay with Me
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. Free Read Books Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo – kino-fada.fr Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend.Yejide and her husband Akin have been in love since they met at university Despite pressure from family members and a slew of medical procedures, Yejide has yet to become pregnant after four years of marriage One day, her in laws arrive with a beautiful young woman they propose Akin take as a second wife so that he may have children Yejide knows it s imperative that she get pregnant or she ll have to shar Click here to watch a video review of this book on my channel, From Beginning to Bookend.Yejide and her husband Akin have been in love since they met at university Despite pressure from family memb...Quadruple WOW If you told me that I d love being on top of the Mountain of Jaw Dropping Miracles, I would have told you that you were nuts Miracles are right up there with ghosts I don t like them to sully my beloved story But man, there I was, my feet glued to the ground, my jaw dropping, like the mountain expected I couldn t have run if I wanted to And I couldn t have looked away Because really, I was witnessing one of the weirdest and sort of grossest scenes I ve ever seen It s also a Quadruple WOW If you told me that I d love being on top of the Mountain of Jaw Dropping Miracles, I would have told you that you were nuts Miracles are right up there with ghosts I don t like them to sully my beloved story But man, there I was, my feet glued to the ground, my jaw dropping, like the mountain expected I couldn t have run if I wanted to And I couldn t have looked away Because really, I was witnessing one of the weirdest and sort of grossest scenes I ve ever seen It s also a funny scene, probably the only comic moment in a book that has a lot of tragedy I had to reread the scene because I just didn t believe what was happening I will say noYou must read it.Like sneakers in a dryer, the biza...I m never quite sure what has me rate a book 5 stars I rarely do so I think I save my 5 stars for books that have me fully intellectually and emotionally engaged Stay With Me was that kind of reading experience Set in Nigeria between the mid 1980s and 2008, Stay With Me is about the tortuous relationship between Yejide and Akin, and their heartbreaking road to parenthood I don t wa...It s not easy being a modern woman in Nigeria Old customs and family traditions are nothing but a pain in the ass for Yejide and her husband Akin You d think having a baby was the most important thing in the frickin world Says who Really says WHO I m aware of the window I was are looking into a different culture with expectations obligations in this page turning well written gut wrenching storybut I laughed and laughed many times I found the dialogue hilarious THESE PE It s not easy being a modern woman in Nigeria Old customs and family traditions are nothing but a pain in the ass for Yejide and her husband Akin You d think having a baby was the most important thing in the frickin world Says who Really sa...Wow, this was absolutely intense The whole book is intensely, compulsively readable and I sped through it in two sittings and it only took two sittings because I had to sleep inbetween Ayobami Adebayo tells the story of a marriage, its desintegration, and the hurt happening along the way We first meet Yejide at a time when she hasn t seen her husband in 14 years and is now preparing to return for his father s funeral, then the story shifts back to the past where the couple is desperately tr Wow, this was absolutely intense The whole book is intensely, compulsively readable and I sped through it in two sittings and it only took two sittings because I had to sleep inbetween Ayobami Adebayo tells the story of a marriage, its desintegration, and the hurt happening along the way We first meet Yejide at a time when she hasn t seen her husband in 14 years and is now preparing to return for his father s funeral, then the story shifts back to the past where the couple is desperately trying to have a child Both their families blame Yejide, going even so far as to arrange a second wife for her husband, Akin This addition of a second wife is the starting point of a grueling few years and of a spiral of hurt and viciousness and painful mistakes.What imp...Desperate to have a child, hopefully a son, a young Nigerian couple struggle to meet the expectations of family and society The story reflects a culture in which a woman s role is seen as bearing a child for her husband in a society where multiple wives are acceptable, especially if the first wife has not had a child A society where a mechanic or a doctor would prefer to speak to the husband rather than the wife, where family members have a good deal of influence in this couple s relationship Desperate to have a child, hopefully a son, a yo...Rating 4.5 What a beautiful, tragic story Utterly heartbreaking There was a line in the book that summed it up perfectly. The mess of life and love that only shows up as you go along.Yejide and Akin are a married couple who must have a child Yes, must You see, Yejide will only become a woman once she has a child, giving her husband a child, hopefully a boy The story takes place in Nigeria and gives you a look at a different culture and its customs Yejide is so desperate to have a chil Rating 4.5 What a beautiful, tragic story Utterly heartbreaking There was a line in the book that summed it up perfectly. The mess of life and love that only shows up as you go along.Yejide and Akin are a married couple who must have a child Yes, must You see, Yejide will only become a woman once she has a child, giving her husband a child, hopefully a boy The story takes place in Nigeria and gives you a look at a different culture and its customs Yejide is so desperate to have a child that she goes up a mountain with a white goat, consults a fertility man witch doctor, ...Saanu mi, malo, Omo mi, joo nitori Olorun Saanu mi Duro timi Have mercy on me, don t go, please Stay with me This is a breathtaking and tragic book about marriage, family, and the lengths one will go to bring a child into this world It s a story of another culture the beliefs, traditions and superstitions The political unrest and the resulting violence of the country are always in the background, never dominating the story but always exerting its influence and effects on the lives of tSaanu mi, malo, Omo mi, joo nitori Olorun Saanu mi Duro timi Have mercy on me, don t go, please Stay with me This is a breathtaking and tragic book about marriage, family, and the lengths one will go to bring a child into this world It s a story of another culture the beliefs, traditions and superstitions The political unrest and the resulting violence of the country are always in the background, never dominating the story but always exerting its influence and effects on the lives of the ch...Different country, different cultural and societal expectations Nigeria n the eighties and ninties, a young couple, Yejede and Akin meet at University, fall in love and marry For Akin having a son meant he was a man, for Yejede, having a child meant fulfilling the role she was expected to fulfil In Nigeria, it was also expected for a man to takethan one wife, especially if the wife was unable to provide a child, but Akin had promised Yejede he would never do this Six years no child, in Different country, different cultural and societal expectations Nigeria n the eighties and ninties, a young couple, Yejede and Akin meet at University, fall in love and marry For Akin having a son meant he was a man, for Yejede, having a child meant fulfilling the role she was expected to fulfil In Nigeria, it was also expected for a man to takethan one wife, especially if the wife was unable to provide a child, but Akin had promised Yejede he would never do this Six years no child, increasing pressure from family, Yejede tries everything, charms, baths everything her mother in law suggests Nothing works, and promises are broken, finally fueled by desperation and need, an urgent step is taken Success, but by no means happiness.This is a very heartfelt story, a story of almos...There are things even love can t do Before I got married, I believed love could do anything 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 Akin After four years of marriage, Yejide and Akin still haven t had a child Akin s family pressures him to take on a second wife who can provide him with descendants Polygamy was There are things even love can t do Before I got married, I believed love could do anything 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 Akin After four years of marriage, Yejide and Akin still haven t had a child Akin s family pressures him to take on a second wife who can provide him with descendants Polygamy was never part of their plan, so Yejide is livid when a second wife appears at her doorstep She becomes desperate to get pregnant in order to protect her marriage Stay with Me is an emotional story about the slow disintegration of a relationship and the damage that societal expectations can inflict.It was the lie I d believed in the beginning Yejide would have a child and we would be happy forever The cost didn...
- English
- 05 July 2017 Ayobami Adebayo
- Hardcover
- 260 pages
- 0451494601
- Ayobami Adebayo
- Stay with Me