num_pages: 288
description: 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 opportunitya 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.
language: English
title: His Only Wife
publisher: Algonquin Books