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BY SITA BALANI
MARRIAGE OF A THOUSAND LIES
FICTION
SJ Sindu
Are all marriages based on lies? Lucky and Krishna’s certainly is: presenting their conservative Sri Lankan-American families with a happy heterosexual front, the perfect cover for their queer lives. When Lucky returns to her mother’s home to act as the carer for her sick grandmother, she unexpectedly reconnects with her childhood best friend and first lover, Nisha. But can this old connection convince Nisha to abandon her arranged marriage to a stranger, or are their ties deeper than desire? SJ Sindu explores the pain and excitement of the closet, and joins the likes of Shyam Selvadurai in capturing the lives of a queer Sri Lankan diaspora.