2.5 stars. We need a new genre: Literary soap opera. This book was well-written and an interesting look into 20th-century Nigerian life, but the repeated twists and big “reveals” were exhausting and difficult to believe. Additionally, I’m not the sort of basic reader who complains about not wanting to read “sad” books, and I know sad stories can often be moving and serve to illuminate larger truths. But “Stay With Me” was such a parade of tragedies without any apparent purpose or larger meaning behind them, that it made me feel like it was little more than misery porn, in the vein of books like “A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara.