Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of 'Stay with me', unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession, and political corruption. 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 and dreaming of a big future. Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealth family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of an ascendent politician. When another 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, Ayobami A. shines her light on Nigeria, it's gaping class divide and the shared humanity that lives in between.
