Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A perfectly balanced novel of marriage, motherhood, Nigeria, manhood, family, tradition, and loss. As propulsive as any thriller, we untangle the life and marriage of Yejide and Akin. Adebayo's writing immersed me in their lives and in their psychology, their experiences were profoundly interesting and empathetic. The culture, tradition, and history of Nigeria played a big part of the novel, but in such a way that a foreign reader would both understand and respect it. Highly recommend.
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Besides, what would be left of love without truth stretched beyond its limits, without those better versions of ourselves that we present as the only one that exist?
The reasons why we do the things we do will not always be the ones that others remember. Sometimes I think we have children because we want to leave behind someone who can explain who we were when we are gone.
They were sorry that I had lost a child, not that she had died.
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