His Only Wife: A Reeses Book Club Pick - A Crazy Rich Asians for West Africa, with a healthy splash of feminism

AN OBSERVER, TIME MAGAZINE & NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2020 \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nA REESE WITHERSPOONS BOOK CLUB PICK \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nVivid, witty and utterly absorbing. Daily Mail\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nElikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAfi Tekple is a young seamstress living in a small town in Ghana with her widowed mother. Afis future doesnt seem to hold much excitement. Until, that is, she is offered a life-changing opportunity - a proposal of marriage from the wealthy family of Elikem Ganyo.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nShe barely knows Elikem, but that seems a small price to pay for a marriage that could offer her family financial security, as well as the key to the glitzy city lifestyle shes always wanted. But when Afi arrives in Accra, she realises that her fairy-tale ending might not be all that shed hoped for. Now she must balance the often conflicting roles of wife, daughter, niece and sister-in-law, without losing sight of herself. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nBursting with warmth and humour, His Only Wife is a witty, smart and moving comedy-of-manners about the search for independence, and the rules that might have to be broken along the way.