My Parents' Marriage

Acclaimed children’s author Nana Brew-Hammond makes her highly anticipated return with this soaring and profound story about love and understanding, told through three generations of one Ghanian family.

Determined to avoid the pain and instability of her parents’ turbulent, confusing 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 new life for themselves 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, which feels both familiar and discomforting, she comes to realise that to exorcise the ghosts of her parents’ marriage, she must confront them to enable her healing.

Tender and illuminating, warm and bittersweet, My Parents’ Marriage is a compelling story of family, community, class, and self-identity from an author with deep empathy and a generous heart.