Marriage of a Thousand Lies by Sj Sindu
"What a gorgeous, heartbreaking novel."--Roxane Gay
A necessary and exciting addition to both the Sri Lankan-American and LGBTQ canons, SJ Sindu's debut novel offers a moving and sharply rendered exploration of friendship, family, love, and loss.
Lucky and her husband, Krishna, are gay. They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conservative Sri Lankan-American families, while each dates on the side. It's not ideal, but for Lucky, it seems to be working. She goes out dancing, she drinks a bit, she makes ends meet by doing digital art on commission. But when Lucky's grandmother has a nasty fall, Lucky returns to her childhood home and unexpectedly reconnects with her former best friend and first lover, Nisha, who is preparing for her own arranged wedding with a man she's never met.
As the connection between the two women is rekindled, Lucky tries to save Nisha from entering a marriage based on a lie. But does Nisha really want to be saved? And after a decade's worth of lying, can Lucky break free of her own circumstances and build a new life? Is she willing to walk away from all that she values about her parents and community to live in a new truth? As Lucky--an outsider no matter what choices she makes--is pushed to the breaking point, Marriage of a Thousand Lies offers a vivid exploration of a life lived at a complex intersection of race, sexuality, and nationality. The result is a profoundly American debut novel shot through with humor and loss, a story of love, family, and the truths that define us all.
Marriage of a Thousand Lies, SJ Sindu's debut novel, will be published by Soho Press in 2017. I Once Met You But You Were Dead, a hybrid fiction and nonfiction chapbook, was the winner of the Split Lip Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest. Sindu's creative writing has been published in a number of literary journals.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781616959470 |
| ISBN 10 | 1616959479 |
| Title | Marriage of a Thousand Lies |
| Author | Sj Sindu |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Soho Press Inc |
| Year published | 2018-07-10 |
| Number of pages | 302 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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