Shackles Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Fiction (2020) and their quiet and tenuous

and their quiet and tenuous way of life is shattered

The Forty Rules of Love unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives—one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century

In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment

Wracked by guilt because of her failure to ever find Georgie

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Shackles Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Fiction (2020) and their quiet and tenuousDr. Sukartono and his independent minded wife, Tini, are facing marital problems when Rohaya the singer enters their life. Unlike Tini, who refuses to play the role of self sacrificing wife, Rohaya is ready to become the devoted wife to Sukartono. On the surface, Shackles dissects the old romantic love triangle. But Shackles also illustrates the confusion experienced by many Indonesians of the pre independence generation; they struggle to overcome