I enjoyed reading her gain more confidence and stick up for herself and what’s right. And there’s still the question about the other woman he’s seeing, which he wants Afi to be fine with but she is rightfully very upset by.ĭespite what everyone seems to think, Afi is not a pushover. He seems more interested in her looks and the fact she’s a good cook rather than anything else. Eventually, she spends more time with Eli and they do connect but mainly as a result of lust at first. And it’s not all horrible as she’s moves into an upscale flat and attends fashion design classes. Still, though, Afi is determined to make it work with Eli. Not only is this an arranged marriage but he can’t find the time to show up to his own wedding day! You really feel for Afi who is put in an impossible situation by wanting to please her mother but also realizing she’s giving up a lot of freedom and a chance for her own love story. That sets the stage for the kind of dynamic between Afi and Eli. We read the story from Afi’s perspective starting with her wedding day where her husband Eli is a no show. 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. The synopsisĪfi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. I also thought it’s more serious than Crazy Rich Asians. I will say some of the promotion tried to compare it to Crazy Rich Asians and there are some similarities (mainly with wealth and a difficult spouse’s mother) but His Only Wife very much stands on its own. It’s not very long either, at about 288 pages, so I ended up reading it one sitting. His Only Wife takes readers to modern-day Ghana and it’s an interesting and unique story. It seems that Reese and her company are focused on bringing a variety of different voices to the mainstream from The Henna Artist to The Last Story of Mina Lee. Reese book club picked His Only Wife for her October selection.
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