![]() These relationships are hardly perfect same sex couples experience the same challenges all marriages present. ![]() There are also male-female marriages but the relationships we are concerned with for the most part involve two men, and these are not casual relationships, they are marriages, and these couples adopt children to become families. Same sex relationships are illegal elsewhere. ![]() The social mores of Americans have been changed along with Hanya’s changes in the map of America.Īlthough it is only the end of the nineteenth century same sex marriages are totally legal and acceptable if you live in the Free States. You can find copies of the maps on Google Images. The current states east of the Rockies, north of the Colonies and including the Midwest are called America, the west coast is known as the West. Then there are the Colonies which include Southern states and Texas and Oklahoma. ![]() The Northeast section, NYC is called the Free States. To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara begins with an America that is hard to recognize and yet unsurprising, given recent exposés of our historical and current prejudices, works as an obvious device for a novel of social commentary and is smack in the middle of Yanagihara’s wheelhouse. ![]()
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