His only wife : a novel /

His only wife : a novel /

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Author / Creator:	Medie, Peace Adzo, 1981- author.
Edition:	First paperback edition.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2021. ©2020
Description:	291 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Reese's book club Reese's book club.
Subject:	Marriage -- Ghana -- Fiction. Arranged marriage -- Ghana -- Fiction. Women dressmakers -- Fiction. Women -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Fiction. Women -- Ghana -- Social conditions -- Fiction. Women -- Ghana -- Fiction. Arranged marriage. Manners and customs. Marriage. Women. Women dressmakers. Women -- Social conditions. Ghana -- Social life and customs -- Fiction. Ghana. novels. Domestic fiction. Fiction. Humorous fiction. Social problem fiction. Domestic fiction. Humorous fiction. Social problem fiction. Novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13525000

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ISBN:	9781643751467 1643751468
Notes:	Originally published: 2020. "Reader's guide and other special features inside."
Summary:	"An intelligent and funny debut about a relatable, indomitable heroine: a young seamstress in Ghana who agrees to an arranged marriage, only to realize that some compromises are too extreme to accept, illuminating what it means to be a woman in a rapidly changing world."-- "Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. Smart and pretty, she has also been convinced by her mother to marry a man she doesn't know: a wealthy businessman named Elikem. His family has chosen Afi in the hopes that she will distract him from a current relationship they disapprove of. When Afi is moved from her small hometown to live in Accra, Ghana's gleaming capital full of wealth and sophistication, she is not prepared for the way her life will change. But she has agreed to this marriage in order to give her mother the financial security she desperately needs, and so Afi must see it through. Or must she? His Only Wife takes place in a world of men who want their wives to be beautiful, to be good cooks and mothers, to grant their husbands forbearance. And in Afi, we meet a delightful, brave, and relatable heroine who just may break all the rules."
Awards:	"100 Notable Books 2020, The New York Times Book Review"--cover.

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