Patel Neel - Tell Me How To Be A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: * Inaugural Lilly's Library BOOK CLUB PICK FROM Lilly Singh * A beautiful book about a mother and son I really loved this book. Rumaan Alam on The Today Show By turns irreverent and tender filled with the beats of 90s R& B Neel Patel's 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. Renu Amin always seemed perfect. But as the one - year anniversary of her husband's death approaches she 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 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 secrets including 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. This debut novel about an Indian - American family has all the right ingredients: family secrets love sexuality loss identity questions and remorse. Good Morning America
Title: Tell Me How To Be A Novel
Author(s): Patel Neel
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Barcode: 9781250184986
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/29/2022
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction