Sponsored by Flatiron Books, publisher of Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel
A darkly funny and emotionally wrought debut novel from Neel Patel, Tell Me How to Be is about an Indian-American family struggling with deeply buried secrets. By turns irreverent and tender and 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.