And in Afi, Peace Medie has created a delightfully spunky and relatable heroine who just may break all the rules.

His Only Wife is a witty, smart, and moving debut novel about a brave young woman traversing the minefield of modern life with its taboos and injustices, living in a world of men who want their wives to be beautiful, to be good cooks and mothers, to be women who respect their husbands and grant them forbearance.

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. ' His Only Wif e by Peace Adzo Medie is a book centered around a Ghanian woman and her community. “Elikem married me in absentia he did not come to our wedding.”Īfi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. “A Crazy Rich Asians for West Africa.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review His Only Wife Peace Adzo Medie Algonquin Books, Fiction - 304 pages 21 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified.

His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie