Secret Lives Of Baba Segi'S Wives eBook

To the dismay of her overbearingly ambitious mother, Bolanle marries into a polygamous family, where she is the fourth wife of a rich, rotund patriarch, Baba Segi. She is a graduate and therefore a great prize, but even graduates must produce children and her husband's persistent bellyache is a sign that things are not as they should be. So Baba takes her to hospital trying to discover the cause of her barrenness. Weaving the voices of Baba Segi and his four competing wives into a portrait of a clamorous household of twelve, Shoneyin evokes an extraordinary Nigerian family in a riotous domestic African novel about rivalry, secrets and jealous wives.