Tell Me How to BeRenu Amin always seemed perfect. But as the one year anniversary of her husbands death approaches, she is binge watching soap operas and simmering with old resentments. She cant 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

Ava wants to be her—and wants her

Publication Date: 1978

By focusing on these works

here a rent boy is portrayed as the devil

and they don't shy away from the complexities of harm and the mess that it leaves

We did not kill the man’s genius

and the enduring fight for free expression and representation

Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 - 18 years

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

Richard Haines

What are our dreams rooted in

who was the subject of two scandalous novels