A debut co-authored novel about the bonds that survive distance, betrayal, and the slow erosion of time.
Set between Accra and the diaspora, Unbreakable follows two lives that began as one and are pulled in opposite directions by ambition, family obligation, and the weight of secrets too long held. It is a story about what holds when everything else gives way — and what it costs to find out.
Written in alternating voices by Akosua Buabeng and Kwame Asare, the novel is the inaugural title of The Weekend Scriptorium's debut season — an intentional choice for a house whose work will live or die by the strength of its first lines.
Readers of Yaa Gyasi, Imbolo Mbue, and Ayobami Adebayo will find a familiar register here, sharpened by the particular grain of contemporary Ghana.
A short passage. The full opening is available in the Kindle preview, or by request from the house.
The first time she lied to him, it was a small thing — the kind of lie a person tells out of kindness, and then forgets, and then is reminded of years later by a stranger at a wedding.
By then it had grown roots.