Marriage of a Thousand Lies is a novel by Sri Lankan-American author SJ Sindu, published by Soho Press in 2017.

It tells the story of Lucky and Kris, two gay South Asian-Americans whose parents immigrated from Sri Lanka, who marry to stay in the closet.

The novel won the 2018 Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction[1] and was a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction finalist[2] and Stonewall Honor Book.

[3] Marriage of a Thousand Lies received positive reviews from Booklist,[4] Lambda Literary Foundation,[5] Publishers Weekly,[6] Toronto Star,[7] Ms.,[8] Paste,[9] Los Angeles Review of Books,[10] International Examiner,[11] and Autostraddle.

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