My parents' marriage - Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

In My Parents’ Marriage, acclaimed author Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond delivers a moving exploration of the patterns we inherit and the choices we must make to break them. Kokui, determined to build a different kind of love than the one she witnessed growing up, marries a man unlike her charming, unfaithful father—and vows to be nothing like her mother.

But marriage, migration, and memory twist her plans. As her relationship unravels in America, the sudden death of her father calls her back to Ghana. There, in the warm disarray of her childhood home, she’s confronted not only by the ghosts of her parents’ union, but by her own daughter—now on the cusp of repeating the same cycle.

With tenderness and clarity, Brew-Hammond writes a story of healing and reckoning. A novel about women, choices, inheritance, and the complicated map between what we run from and what we carry with us.
For readers of Yaa Gyasi and Tayari Jones, My Parents’ Marriage is a lyrical tribute to African families navigating love, diaspora, and emotional freedom.