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Marriage of a Thousand Lies

A Novel

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By: SJ Sindu
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
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Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance and have a drink or two, and she makes art on commission. Fifty bucks gets you high-resolution digital images of anything you want (orcs, mermaids, cos-playing couples in sexy boudoir scenes) and a nice frameable print. Lucky's husband, Krishna, is an editor for a greeting card company. Both are secretly gay. They present their conservative Sri Lankan American families with a heterosexual front while each dates on the side.

When Lucky's grandmother has a nasty fall, Lucky returns to her mother's home to act as caretaker and unexpectedly reconnects with her childhood best friend and first lover, Nisha. Nisha has agreed to an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't know but finds herself attracted to her old friend. The attraction is mutual, and Lucky tries to save Nisha from entering a marriage based on a lie. But does Nisha really want to be saved? And what does Lucky want, anyway? To live openly means that Lucky would lose most of the community she was born into - a community she loves, an irreplaceable home. Lucky, an outsider no matter what choices she makes, is pushed to the breaking point.

©2017 SJ Sindu (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Accolades & Awards

The Publishing Triangle Award
2018
Literature & Fiction The Publishing Triangle Award Women's Fiction Literary Fiction United States Genre Fiction World Literature Historical Fiction
Moving Emotional Story • Cultural Exploration • Heartfelt Narrative • Important Topics • Reflective Themes

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I struggled with this book. I felt like this book couldn't decide a lot of basic things about the characters, about the plot, about the relationships, about the message. All of the characters were so vapid and childish, except maybe the grandmother. I never connected with any of them and was increasingly frustrated with the immaturity and whining. Overall I was glad it was over and felt very eh about the whole thing.

Eh, not awful, not great

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I loved this book! Beautiful.
I really didn’t like the reader, however. She was overly melodramatic and I don’t think the story benefited from her dramatic input. She was pretty awful. Almost ruined the whole book.

Great book but the reader was not fantastic

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This was a very moving, emotional, and joyous book with excellent narration. It was an interesting look into Sri Lankan culture and how life is for a gay woman in that culture. I look forward to reading future books by this author.

A joy to read

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Beautiful, heartfelt, gut wrenching story! The story of expectations versus reality will make you reflect on every societal norm you believe to be true!

Lovely story of Real Life

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I liked the premise and I felt like the book touched on a lot of important topics like the overlap of being brown and gay. But I am struggling with this one. It feels slow and depressing. I am about 2/3s. I think I will leave and come back to this one.

Am I the only person who struggled to finish?

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