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26-year-old Akash Amin 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 of the first boy he ever loved. When his mother tells him she is selling the family home, Akash returns to Illinois, hoping to finally move on.
Renu Amin always seemed perfect: doting husband, beautiful house, healthy sons. But as the one-year anniversary of her husband's death approaches, Renu can't stop wondering if she chose the wrong life thirty-five years ago .
Together, Renu and Akash pack up the house, retreating further into the secrets that stand between them. 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.
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.
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Neel Patel is a first-generation Indian American who grew up in Champaign, Illinois. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and his short stories have appeared in The Southampton Review, Indiana Review, The American Literary Review, Hyphen Magazine, and on BuzzFeed and Nerve.com. Tell Me How to Be is his debut novel.
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'A soulful and seductive love song of a book'
Nancy Jooyoun Kim, author of The Last Story of Mina Lee
Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men, for wanting to be a songwriter and for his alcoholism. Shame for what happened with the first boy he ever loved. When his mother tells him she is selling their family home, he must leave his new life in LA for Illinois to pack up the house and face confronting everything he's tried to leave behind.
Akash's mum, Renu, is also plagued by guilt for, as the first anniversary of her husband's death approaches, she can't stop wondering if she chose the wrong life, if thirty-five years ago she should have stayed in London with her first love.
Filled with the beats of '90s R&B, Tell Me How to Be is about a mother and a son each trying to figure out how to be in the world. As their pasts catch up to them they must both choose between the lives they've left behind and the ones they've since created.
'Patel writes with the wisdom and compassion of an old soul' Celeste Ng 'Utterly unforgettable' Nikesh Shukla 'Something everyone can relate to' Lilly Singh 'One of the best and most beautiful books I've read all year' Luan Goldie
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