| Love Marriage | |
| Author: | V.V. Ganeshananthan |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Publisher: | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
| Release Date: | April 2008 |
| Pages: | 302 (hardback edition) |
| Isbn: | 978-1400066698 |
| Isbn Note: | (paperback edition) |
Love Marriage (2008) is the debut novel by author V. V. Ganeshananthan set in Sri Lanka and North America. Published by Random House in April 2008, Love Marriage was named one of The Washington Post
Ganeshananthan began the novel as part of her senior thesis at Harvard University under the direction of Jamaica Kincaid. In a series of vignettes, Ganeshananthan's novel chronicles how Sri Lankan politics have affected and continue to affect a particular family.[2] Its narrator, Yalini, is a young woman born to Sri Lankan parents in New York on July 23, 1983—the same day as one of the most violent episodes in the Sri Lankan Civil War, Black July. The novel follows Yalini and her family from suburban America to Toronto, where they reunite with an uncle who has left Sri Lanka, after a life of militancy with the Tamil Tigers.[3]