The Commitment

Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

By Dan Savage

By Dan Savage

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    About The Commitment

    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.

    About The Commitment

    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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    Praise

    “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

    About Dan Savage

    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 26 newspapers in the United States and Canada…. More about Dan Savage

    About Dan Savage

    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 26 newspapers in the United States and Canada…. More about Dan Savage

    Product Details

    Paperback
    Published by Penguin Books
    Sep 26, 2006 | 304 Pages | 5-5/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780452287631

    Ebook
    Published by Penguin Books
    Sep 22, 2005 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9781101213322

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