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Tell Me How to Be

By: Neel Patel
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
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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.

©2021 Neel Patel (P)2021 Orion Publishing Group
Coming of Age Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Witty

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Critic reviews

"A love letter to R&B, youth, and the unforgettable agonies of one's first love.... I will read everything Patel writes from here on." (Susie Yang, New York Times best-selling author of White Ivy)

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