Powerfully magnetic. . . . In the lineage of great works by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. . . . A thoroughly contemporaryand deeply movingportrait of a marriage. The New York Times Book Review
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 marriageafter consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely curesYejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has timeuntil her in-laws arrive on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akins second wife. Furious, shocked, and livid with jealousy, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get pregnant. Which, finally, she doesbut 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 Measks how much we can sacrifice for the sake of family.
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Shortlisted for the 2017 Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction
Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize and the 9mobile Prize for Literature
Longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize
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