Peace adzo medie books6/22/2023 ![]() She has agreed to this marriage in order to give her mother the financial security she desperately needs, and so she must see it through. But Afi is not prepared for the shift her life takes when she is moved from her small hometown of Ho to live in Accra, Ghana’s gleaming capital, a place of wealth and sophistication where she has days of nothing to do but cook meals for a man who may or may not show up to eat them. Afi knows who he is, of course-Elikem is a wealthy businessman whose mother has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from his relationship with a woman his family claims is inappropriate. She is smart she is pretty and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. The synopsisĪfi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. ![]() I also thought it’s more serious than Crazy Rich Asians. I will say some of the promotion tried to compare it to Crazy Rich Asians and there are some similarities (mainly with wealth and a difficult spouse’s mother) but His Only Wife very much stands on its own. It’s not very long either, at about 288 pages, so I ended up reading it one sitting. His Only Wife takes readers to modern-day Ghana and it’s an interesting and unique story. It seems that Reese and her company are focused on bringing a variety of different voices to the mainstream from The Henna Artist to The Last Story of Mina Lee. ![]() Reese book club picked His Only Wife for her October selection. ![]()
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