His Only Wife

Elikem Married Me In Absentia; He Did Not Come To Our Wedding. Afi Tekple Is A Young Seamstress Whose Life Is Narrowing Rapidly. She Lives In A Small Town In Ghana With Her Widowed Mother, Spending Much Of Her Time In Her Uncle PiousS House With His Many Wives And Children. Then One Day She Is Offered A Life-Changing Opportunity--A Proposal Of Marriage From The Wealthy Family Of Elikem Ganyo, A Man She DoesnT Truly Know. She Acquiesces, But Soon Realizes That Elikem Is Not Quite The Catch He Seemed. He Sends A Stand-In To His Own Wedding, And Only Weeks After Afi Is Married And Installed In A Plush Apartment In The Capital City Of Accra Does She Meet Her New Husband. It Turns Out That He Is In Love With Another Woman, Whom His Family Disapproves Of; Afi Is Supposed To Win Him Back On Their Behalf. But It Is Accra That Eventually Wins AfiS Heart And Gives Her A Life Of Independence That She Never Could Have Imagined For Herself. A Brilliant Scholar And A Fierce Advocate For WomenS Rights, Author Peace Adzo Medie Infuses Her Debut Novel With Intelligence And Humor. For Readers Of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie And Candice Carty-Williams, His Only Wife Is The Story Of An Indomitable And Relatable Heroine That Illuminates What It Means To Be A Woman In A Rapidly Changing World.