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 and was a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction finalist and Stonewall Honor Book.
Marriage of a Thousand Lies received positive reviews from Booklist, Lambda Literary Foundation, Publishers Weekly, Toronto Star, Ms., Paste, Los Angeles Review of Books, International Examiner, and Autostraddle.