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SUMMARY:Book Launch for SJ Sindu | In Her Voice
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the release of SJ Sindu‘s new book \nMarriage of a Thousand Lies. \nWhen: \nThursday\, June 22nd @ 6pm \nWhere: \nFamous Last Words \n392 Pacific Ave \nThe Junction \n\n \n\nLucky 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. \nAs 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. \n\n \n\nSJ Sindu was born in Sri Lanka and raised in Massachusetts. Her hybrid fiction and nonfiction chapbook\, I Once Met You But You Were Dead\, won the 2016 Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest and was published by Split Lip Press. She was a 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow. She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Florida State University. Her work has be published in Brevity\, the Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Normal School\, Fifth Wednesday Journal\, and other journals and anthologies. She teaches and writes in Tallahassee. Marriage of a Thousand Lies is her first novel\, and will be released by Soho Press in June 2017. \n000000
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LOCATION:Famous Last Words\, 392 Pacific Ave\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M6P 2R1\, Canada
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