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SJ SINDU and LOUIE CRONIN on Their New Novels at JP Papercuts

June 27, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

JP Papercuts hosts novelists SJ SINDU, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, and LOUIE CRONIN, Everybody Loves You Back to read and discuss their latest works.

In Marriage of a Thousand Lies, Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance, to 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?

In Everyone Loves You Back, we meet Bob, a sarcastic radio technician who has enough on his plate trying to navigate his forties without his Cambridge neighborhood becoming overrun by urban treehuggers and uppity intellectuals in tracksuits. Between a love triangle, a rapidly shrinking job market, and the looming threat of finally growing up, Bob is forced to dig deep―man―and figure out not just what he wants, but who he is. Change hits hard when you live in the past.

Tickets purchased in advance will become $5 credit toward a book purchase.

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Date:
June 27, 2017
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Website:
http://www.papercutsjp.com/events/marriage-of-a-thousand-lies

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Papercuts JP
Phone:
617-522-3404
Website:
papercutsjp.com/events

Venue

Papercuts JP
5 Green Street
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130 United States
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Website:
http://www.papercutsjp.com

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.