Event time:
Tuesday, July 24, 2018 - 6:00pm
Location:
Office of LBTQ Resources
135 Prospect Street
Event description:
The July Book Club selection is Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu.
Where to find the book:
- Co-chair Kathleen Ayers (kathleen.ayers@yale.edu) has copies purchased by Diversity & Inclusion
- Hoopla audiobook is free through the New Haven Public Library
- Yale Library has copies
- BorrowDirect may provide copies from other libraries
- Check findIT CT state-wide public library catalog
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The book can be found at Amazon and all major retailers
Description from Amazon:
A necessary and exciting addition to both the Sri Lankan-American and LGBTQ canons, SJ Sindu’s debut novel Marriage of a Thousand Lies 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.