06_ Marriage of a Thousand Lies

    I listen the audio version of Marriage of a Thousand Lies through Amazon, I can't really finish the entire book because my language issue took me so many time to finish a book, but I tried to understand the story about this book. It's kind of painful to watch Lucky's relationship with Nisha, also she can't see a way forward. And it also feel bleak as Lucky bounces between her options. It's sad, but I can related to her situation somehow.
    In my country, our traditional family arrange everything for us, such as occupation or marriage even more. They always say that it's for our own good. They believe their experiences and perspectives are never wrong.  Confucianism is the central idea for Asian people, it's talk about honor the aged and the wise, respect the leader such as things. So the elder can always affect our life. Fortunately it's changing and getting better now, but still have some conservative people in my hometown doing such as things. Homosexuality in my country is a serious issue, it affecting the traditional society and conservative idea for last generation people. We are still trying to fight for their right, and we are trying to legislate the policy for them. But the most difficult thing is convincing the elder. Most of the families do not accept homosexuality because they educated by the traditional ideas. The limitation of traditional society are making difficult situation for homosexual, they are afraid of telling their family who they truly are. Mostly the homosexuality in my country are not happy, they have to pretend they are straight to become and reach their family's expectation. The characters remind me a character from a film in American Beauty, the gay father who roles by Chris Copper.