The Commitment
Subtitle: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family
Publisher: Plume
Published: September 26, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780452287631
First sentence: I can't shake the feeling that I've lived this moment before.
Description: 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.