###### Created: 2024-03-12 11:18 ###### Author: Ayobami Adebayo ###### Areas & Topics: #literature #book ###### Note Type: #literature ###### Connected to: [[Nigeria]] [[Nigerian Coup D’etat of 1966]] [[Gideon Orkar]] [[Ibrahim Babangida]][[Pseudocyesis]] ###### Source: Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo ### Rating - 8/10 - Wouldn't read again but enjoyed reading once and recommend others to do the same. ### Description - An interesting fictitious account of a woman and her family's struggles in Nigeria post 1960. - Some very heart-felt and emotional points made on the difficulties associated with losing children, struggling to conceive and the trauma that someone can go through stemming from family. - Very easy to read and a great insight into Nigeria and some of it's important historical events following its independence. ## Quotes P87 “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 ones that exist?”