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.