The Marriage Act The Risk I Took to Keep My Best Friend in America, and What It Taught Us About Love
The Marriage Act The Risk I Took to Keep My Best Friend in America, and What It Taught Us About Love
- ISBN 13:
9781593765361
- ISBN 10:
1593765363
- Edition: 1st
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 02/11/2014
- Publisher: Soft Skull
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Summary
After her traditional engagement to her high school sweetheart falls apart, Liza Monroy faced the prospect of another devastating loss: the deportation of her best friend Emir. Desperate to stay in America, Emir tried every legal recourse to obtain a green card knowing that his return to the Middle Eastwhere gay men are often beaten and sometimes killedwas too dangerous. So Liza proposes to Emir in efforts to keep him safe and by her side. After a fast wedding in Las Vegas, the couple faces new adventures and obstacles in both L.A. and New York City as they dodge the INS. Their relationship is compounded further by the fact that Liza’s mother works for the State Department preventing immigration fraud. Through it all, Liza and Emir must contend with professional ambition, adversity, and heartbreak and eventually learn the true lessons of companionship and devotion. This marriage that was not a marriage, in the end, really was.
The Marriage Act is a timely and topical look at the changing face of marriage in America and speaks to the emergent generation forming bonds outside of traditionand sometimes even outside the law.
The Marriage Act is a timely and topical look at the changing face of marriage in America and speaks to the emergent generation forming bonds outside of traditionand sometimes even outside the law.