TY - BOOK AU - Medie,Peace A. TI - His only wife SN - 9780861541454 U1 - 823.92 23/eng/20211011 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - Oneworld Publications KW - Women dressmakers KW - Fiction KW - Arranged marriage KW - Ghana KW - Social life and customs KW - Social problem fiction KW - lcgft KW - Humorous fiction KW - Domestic fiction N1 - Originally published: North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020 N2 - 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 Pious's 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 doesn't 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 Afi's heart and gives her a life of independence that she never could have imagined for herself ER -