: Neel Patel’s novel plays the themes of past hurt and closure within a diaspora family of Indians #IndiaNEWS Neel Patel’s Tell Me How to Be is a narrative set against the backdrop of emotions rather

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Neel Patel’s novel plays the themes of past hurt and closure within a diaspora family of Indians #IndiaNEWS
Neel Patel’s Tell Me How to Be is a narrative set against the backdrop of emotions rather than a geographical location. In the process it reveals itself as an examination of where and how one can put down one’s roots in an ever-changing world after clearing the weight of the past. The novel uses sleight-of-hand in the way it embeds themes of racism and homophobia within the larger ambit of thwarted love.It follows two protagonists: Renu Amin, who is trying to reclaim a love she lost decades earlier thanks to marriage to another man arranged by her family, and her son Akash, a wannabe music composer who, along with carrying the fear of coming out to his family as gay, is struggling with his past as much as his present. The two protagonists tell us their stories of lost longings and the disquiet that has settled into their very beings, leaving them bereft and incomplete as they try to find closure with the help of missing elements from their past. Renu and Akash takes turns to narrate the story of their pasts after Renu convenes a family prayer to mark the first death anniversary of her husband and Akash’s father.Of identities...Does this sound like a family...Read more

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