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(Penguin Random House)

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Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. Because his father has lost his job, Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers, begging when he must, dreaming of a big future.

Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of an ascendant politician.

When a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence shatters a family party, Wuraola's and Eniola's lives become intertwined. In her breathtaking second novel, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ shines her light on Nigeria, on the gaping divide between the haves and the have-nots, and the shared humanity that lives in between.

(From Knopf)

Born in Lagos, Ayòbámi Adébáyò is author of two books about Nigerian politics and contemporary life, Stay with Me and A Spell of Good Things.

Stay with Me was shortlisted for the UK's Bailey's Prize for Women's Fiction, the Wellcome Book Prize, and other awards,