A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
A Library Journal Best Fiction Book of 2020
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Afi Tekple is a young seamstress in Ghana. She is smart; she is pretty; and she has been convinced by her mother to marry a man she does not know. Afi knows who he is, of course a�" 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. 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, Ghanaa�TMs gleaming capital, a place of wealth and sophistication. 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. Or maybe not?