Marriage of a Thousand Lies: SJ Sindu

Marriage of a Thousand Lies: SJ SinduThe first ever Sri Lankan American LGBT novel is warm, beautiful, and moving; this debut is a sharp exploration of how culture and family can both offer comfort and support, and also put terrible pressures on those who are different. "Lucky" has been living a lie in the Massachusetts Tamil community she and her husband, both secretly gay, present an illusion of marital bliss to their conservative Sri Lankan American families while dating on the side.

The first ever Sri Lankan-American LGBT novel is warm, beautiful, and moving; this debut is a sharp exploration of how culture and family can both offer comfort and support, and also put terrible pressures on those who are different. "Lucky" has been living a lie in the Massachusetts Tamil community--she and her husband, both secretly gay, present an illusion of marital bliss to their conservative Sri Lankan-American families while dating on the side. Lucky reconnects with her first lover, Nisha, who prepares for her own arranged wedding--but Nisha seems torn between the wedding and Lucky. 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?