TELL ME HOW TO BE: A NOVEL

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  • Release Date: January 2022
  • Author : Neel Patel
  • Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
  • ISBN: 9780670092505
  • Price: Rs. 599/-
  • Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction/Family & Relationships
  • Language : English
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Extent: 336 Pages 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Renu Amin always seemed perfect: doting husband, beautiful
house, healthy sons. But as the one-year anniversary of her
husband's death approaches, Renu is binge-watching soap operas
and simmering with old resentments. She can't stop wondering if,
thirty-five years ago, she chose the wrong life. In Los Angeles, her son,
Akash, has everything he ever wanted, but as he tries to kickstart his
songwriting career and commit to his boyfriend, he is haunted by the
painful memories he fled a decade ago. When his mother tells him she is
selling the family home, Akash returns to Illinois, hoping to finally say
goodbye and move on.

Together, Renu and Akash pack up the house, retreating further into the
secrets that stand between them. Renu sends an innocent Facebook
message to the man she almost married, sparking an emotional affair
that calls into question everything she thought she knew about herself.
Akash slips back into bad habits as he confronts his darkest secretsincluding
what really happened between him and the first boy who
broke his heart. When their pasts catch up to them, Renu and Akash
must decide between the lives they left behind and the ones they've
since created, between making each other happy and setting themselves
free. By turns irreverent and tender, filled with the beats of '90s R&B, Tell
Me How to Be is about our earliest betrayals and the cost of
reconciliation. But most of all, it is the love story of a mother and son
each trying to figure out how to be in the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Neel Patel is a first-generation Indian American who grew up in
Champaign, Illinois. His debut story collection, If You See Me, Don't Say Hi,
was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and was long-listed
for the Story Prize and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. He currently lives
in Los Angeles. Tell Me How to Be is his debut novel.

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