a conventional family saga, which opens with the familiar device of a mismarriage
mismarriage in American English
(mɪsˈmærɪdʒ)
noun
an unsuitable or unhappy marriage
Word origin
[1810–20; mis-1 + marriage]This word is first recorded in the period 1810–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cleavage, knockout, realism, technique, voodoomis- is a prefix applied to various parts of speech, meaning “ill,” “mistaken,” “wrong,”“wrongly,” “incorrectly,” or simply negating. Other words that use the affix mis- include: misprint, mistrial, mistrust