The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives

By: Lola Shoneyin

Published June 29th 2010 by William Morrow

Category: Biography

Pages: 280 pages

ISBN: 9780061946370

Description:
African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi SegiÕs Wives, a perceptive, entertaining, and eye-opening novel of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. The struggles, rivalries, intricate family politics, and the interplay of personalities and relationships within the complex private world of a polygamous union come to life in The Secret Lives of Baba SegiÕs WivesÑBig Love and The 19th Wife set against a contemporary African background.