My Parents' Marriage: A Novel [Paperback]

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 realize that to exorcize the ghosts of her parents’ marriage she must confront them to enable her healing.

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

My Parents’ Marriage is a deeply engaging and gratifying novel that deftly explores the generational cycles we are each born into and offers a moving portrait into the joys—and guilt—of finding our own way. I can’t remember the last time I rooted for a character as wholeheartedly as I did for Kokui, a young woman who, having faced shattered illusions around her parents’ union, is determined to shape her life and marriage around truth. Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond’s is a rare talent. -Adrienne Brodeur, author of Little Monsters and Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover and Me

In My Parents' Marriage, Nana Brew-Hammond crafts a moving account about a young woman who, despite familial expectations and divided loyalty, strives to be faithful to the person who matters most—herself. A propulsive lãš