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comes up against one community’s determination to hold on to its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom

From the devastations of climate change to the horrors of gun violence

mistakenly believes she is the sister-in-law he's never met

critically acclaimed author of The Silence of Bones and The Forest of Stolen Girls

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Tell Me How to Be Format:Paperback comes up against one community’s* INAUGURAL LILLY'S LIBRARY BOOK CLUB PICK FROM LILLY SINGH * A beautiful book about a mother and sonI 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