They present an illusion of marital bliss to their conservative Sri Lankan–American families, while each dates on the side.

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.

Marriage of a Thousand Lies by SJ Sindu (Fiction) And besides, for Emily, Jody is the real drug.īut when Jody’s business partner goes missing, and the lies begin to pile up, Emily will learn just how far Jody is willing to go to save her own skin-and how much Emily herself has risked for the love of someone who may never truly love her back.Įchoing the work of authors like Daniel Woodrell and Sarah Waters, Cottonmouths is an unflinching story about the ways in which the past pulls us back … despite our best efforts to leave it behind. She dismisses her worries after all, Jody is a single mom. As they grow closer, Emily glimpses a future for the first time since coming home. When Emily stumbles upon a meth lab on Jody’s property, she realizes just how far they’ve both fallen.Įmily intends to keep her distance from Jody, but when she’s kicked out of her house with no money and nowhere to go, a paying job as Jody’s live-in babysitter is hard to pass up. Emily can’t resist the opportunity to reconnect, despite the uncomfortable way things ended between them and her mom’s disapproval of their friendship. Emily’s former best friend-and childhood crush-Jody Monroe is back with a baby. But after failing out of school, she’s left with no choice but to return to her small Arkansas hometown, a place run on gossip and good Christian values. People didn’t disappear.Ĭollege was supposed to be an escape for Emily Skinner. By night, she cracks heads of rival gangs in brutal bike wars to gain possession of a rare, valuable contraband: an engine-boosting “machine narcotic” known as Crush.įrom a compelling new voice in LGBTQ and Southern fiction, a gripping tale of crime and desire amid small-town America’s meth epidemic. The team behind the critically-acclaimed revamp of Batgirl returns with an exciting sci-fi action-adventure series! By day, Domino Swift competes for fame & fortune in a worldwide motorcycle racing league. Motor Crush Volume 1 by Brendon Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, and Babs Tarr (Comics)

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