From Chapter 23, “Leaving the Country,” of The Marriage Contract, 2027, which reads the law of marriage as the prenup every married couple already has.
In an airport customs hall, a married couple with luggage carts wait at a desk under a sign asking Anything to declare? An officer dangles their thick ring binder by one corner, as if it were a suspect fish, and squints at it over his glasses. Another officer is rubber-stamping a different binder.
