{"id":3118,"date":"2017-05-12T20:17:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T14:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=3118"},"modified":"2020-03-10T12:05:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T06:35:35","slug":"stay-ayobami-adebayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/stay-ayobami-adebayo\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo – Deception, Marriage and Childlessness"},"content":{"rendered":"
Against the social and political unrest in Nigeria in the 1980s, Stay with me <\/em>talks\u00a0about the fragility of marriage, societal pressures on a married couple and motherhood.<\/p>\n  l<\/p>\n I am slowly making my way through the Bailey\u2019s prize shortlisted books of 2017. After reading\u00a0Do Not Say we have Nothing<\/em>\u00a0by Madeline Thien that talked about the cultural revolution in China<\/a><\/span>\u00a0with a musical backdrop to the narration (which was also in the Man Booker shorlist 2016 and won The Scotiabank Giller Prize 2016 and Governor General’s Award for English Language 2016)and\u00a0The Power<\/em> by Naomi Alderman, about a dystopian world where women get the power to conduct electricity<\/a><\/span>, \u00a0my next pick was\u00a0Stay with me<\/em> by Ayobami Adebayo.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yejide and Akin are a married couple staying in Nigeria, very much in love with one another. Yejide is almost an orphan. Her mother died and her father\u2019s other wives do not regard her with affection. Her life becomes happier after she meets Akin and gets married to him. When the couple fail to conceive a child, Akin is forced into marrying another girl named Funmi to continue his bloodline. Set in 1985, this novel focusses on the pressure on couples to have children after marriage<\/p>\nReview<\/h3>\n