Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her parents’ turbulent marriage, Kokui marries a man far different from her loving, philandering, self-made father – and tries to be a different kind of wife from her mother. But when Kokui and her husband leave Ghana to make a modern life in America, she finds history repeating itself. Her marriage failing, she is called home to Ghana when her father dies. Back in her childhood home, she comes to realize that to exorcize the ghosts of her parents’ marriage she must confront them.
What The Reviewers Say
The result is emotional turbulence, with one knotty circumstance after another spooling out in an otherwise conventional plot … Soul-searching with a pragmatic edge.
Alongside the dynamics of culture, identity, and class, Kokui’s journey finely captures the formative shifts and bittersweet revelations of womanhood.
Brew-Hammond’s prose and dialogue are workmanlike, but this tale of a garden-variety couple ultimately feels slim.
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