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The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

by Dan Savage (Author)

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Synopsis

Dan Savage s mother wants him to get married. His boyfriend, Terry, says no thanks because he doesn t want to act like a straight person. Their six-year-old son DJ says his two dads aren t allowed to get married, but that he d like to come to the reception and eat cake. Throw into the mix Dan s straight siblings, whose varied choices form a microcosm of how Americans are approaching marriage these days, and you get a rollicking family memoir that will have everyone gay or straight, right or left, single or married howling with laughter and rethinking their notions of marriage and all it entails."

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 291
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 26 Sep 2006
ISBN 10: 0452287634
ISBN 13: 9780452287631

Media Reviews
Hilarious, heartfelt. --Seattle Post-Intelligencer

As funny as David Sedaris's essay collections, but bawdier and more thought-provoking. --Publisher's Weekly (starred review)

Most of all, a book about creating and appreciating family. --Seattle Times

I think America would be a better place if everyone on every side of the gay marriage debate would read this book. --Ira Glass, host of the public radio show This American Life

The strongest argument here, which [Savage] brilliantly plays down, is that family means everything to these people: married, not married, blended, gay, straight, whatever. --The Washington Post

Author Bio
Dan Savage's column, Savage Love, is a nationally syndicated sex-advice column read by more than four million people each week. He has written the column for eight years, and it runs in twenty-six newspapers in the United States and Canada. He also writes Dear Dan, an online advice column for ABCNews.com. Savage is the associate editor of The Stranger in Seattle and a regular contributor to This American Life on NPR and is the author of Savage Love (Plume), a collection of his advice columns. He lives in Seattle, Washington.