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What’s Mine and Yours
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A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
An instant New York Times bestseller!
A USA Today bestseller!
Named a Best Book of 2021 by Amazon • Esquire • Marie Claire • Refinery29 • Kirkus • Redbook • Ms. Magazine • The Millions • Undomesticated Magazine • Paperback Paris
“A once-every-few-years reading experience.”—Mary Beth Keane, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes
“Coster portrays her characters’ worlds with startling vitality. As the children fall in lust and love, grapple with angst and battle the tides of New South politics, Coster’s writing shines”—New York Times Book Review
From the author of Halsey Street, a sweeping novel of legacy, identity, the American family—and the ways that race affects even our most intimate relationships.
A community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west. For two students, Gee and Noelle, the integration sets off a chain of events that will tie their two families together in unexpected ways over the next twenty years.
On one side of the integration debate is Jade, Gee’s steely, ambitious mother. In the aftermath of a harrowing loss, she is determined to give her son the tools he’ll need to survive in America as a sensitive, anxious, young Black man. On the other side is Noelle’s headstrong mother, Lacey May, a white woman who refuses to see her half-Latina daughters as anything but white. She strives to protect them as she couldn’t protect herself from the influence of their charming but unreliable father, Robbie.
When Gee and Noelle join the school play meant to bridge the divide between new and old students, their paths collide, and their two seemingly disconnected families begin to form deeply knotted, messy ties that will shape the trajectory of their adult lives. And their mothers—each determined to see her child inherit a better life—will make choices that will haunt them for decades to come.
As love is built and lost, and the past never too far behind, What’s Mine and Yours is an expansive, vibrant tapestry that moves between the years, from the foothills of North Carolina, to Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Paris. It explores the unique organism that is every family: what breaks them apart and how they come back together.
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What’s Mine and Yours
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Kindle Customer –
Dysfunction and prejudice is manifested throughout this narrative. This novel is just one the realities of our society. Not many redemptions occur, which made it more realistic.
An interesting story!
Kindle Customer –
Compelling multi-generational family drama revolving around the interrogation of a high school in NC and two families. Characters are well developed, not perfect, not always likable, but realistic. I guess “family drama” is the best way to classify this book- no clear cut plot or even a distinct ending with total resolution. But thought provoking and very good book.
Rachael Abbott –
This book is a heartbreaking glimpse of how we shape our children and how we can put so much on their shoulders without meaning to. Lacey May did some things that were wrong in the name of doing the right thing for her daughters. Prejudice is never a good thing, but to do it the window dressing of “for their own good”? I wonder how much of that was because she was so angry at her ex-husband Robbie. The hard thing about hating the other parent of your children is that your children are also apart of them. I grew up in a small southern town and I had a child while I was in high school and I can understand a little about what Jade went through. The condemning looks and being treated like trash, even from my own family. If someone has to put someone else down to make themselves feel better, how is it that anyone can them seriously? I don’t care if it’s even talking about the drunk down the road. You don’t have to live their life to understand compassion. You never know what someone else is dealing with in their lives. I really wish everyone in this world would quit judging someone else by the color of their skin or side of town they live on. This is a fantastic look into way we all look at others and really wish more people would try to help others and not tear down anyone who lives differently than they do. I hate to break to you but no matter what color of skin you have we are all just human and trying to live a life on rock. I really enjoyed this book. It gives insight into issues that should have been long gone for the “modern times” we’re supposed to living. If only everyone would try to build people up instead of trying to tear each other down. What a great place we could build.💚
TeeMee-Kraftqueen65-Obsessive Reader –
With Kindle kicking off their Spring 2022 challenge, this was 1 out of only 4 books available that were Kindle Unlimited, from their list of 100 books for the hot 2021 selection, or whatever they called it.
Not much of a selection for genres, or interesting availability either way.
This seemed to be the closest to what I thought I may be able to read to complete this particular challenge. But at page 37 out of 352 pages, I wasn’t so sure I would be able to make it through, without a lot of skimming and quick reading to get to the end. That’s not what I consider an immensely exciting and fun challenge. I read for enjoyment, as well as escape for the hostilities of our current hideous and critical global issues, in addition to evading my own daily complications of life.
From the beginning, the book quickly turns dismal and rather somber, as it introduces another key player to the book’s overall premise.
BUT, once it gets past these introductions, it begins to stabilize into a much deeper storyline of the different families and the individual family members that make up the backdrop of their lives. It digs deeper into what would be considered our formative years, and how easily it is to be shaped and forged by what we are surrounded with. Family, friends, neighbors, entire neighborhoods, the interplay of the educational system. We can fight back, fight against, fight for better, or fight for worse.
In the end, it absolutely does have an impact on the who, the what, the where, in which we end up evolving into as an adult.
People are capable of change at any age. It’s all about the amount of work we choose to put into it. Most would rather complain about their lot in live, how it’s all someone else’s fault, including our formative years I mentioned earlier, how it’s just too difficult, or we already have too much on our plates. In the grand scheme of it all, they’re all excuses to get out of doing the difficult and arduous work, not to mention the often distressing pain involved, all of which is required to get through it.
We also each have our secrets. Those we’re most ashamed of, so worried about what others will think of us, if they only knew the honest truth.
This book adresses all of these issues, and more.
At 70-71% of the book, it becomes super involved and I was totally engrossed til the end. I didn’t particularly care for the rather abrupt ending though. Especially since it still showed 5% left, and even after that it was filled with acknowledgements, discussion questions, and a lengthy interview with the author.
I seriously hesitated back and forth between 3 and 4 stars. In a rare move for me, I went with the lower of the two in the end and gave it the 3 stars.
Ray –
I picked up this book and didn’t put it down till I finished.
Initially, I was confused – the story jumper from Ray Gilbert to Lacey May and Robbie then to the 21st century with Noelle.
But then, as expected, it started connecting. It started making sense. I usually struggle with books written from different povs. But this book did it so well! I did have to search names within the book every now and then to remind myself but overall, it’s a good read.
Ashlea Jackson –
The book was good the characters had great depth to them. It showed complications of two different familys.
sheryl –
I struggled to decide what to rate this. It’s very hard to get into because there are so many characters and going back and forth was confusing. But, once you get into it, it seems to move along.
But the ending was abrupt and I personally felt like I was left hanging.
So for that reason I gave it three stars.
Jocelyn Jane –
I loved the ensemble cast in Naima Coster’s novel, What’s Mine and Yours. Coster covers a wide scope in a non-linear fashion, incorporates several story lines, and intertwines it all in such an interesting way. I also appreciate the cultural commentaries she has baked into this, especially the role of schools in shaping us, both individually and on a societal level. The mothers in this book do not disappoint. Okay, well sometimes they do disappoint, but they provide lots of food for thought. This book launched a great discussion in my bookgroup and, wow, I think Coster has written the best first chapter I’ve read in a long time.
Suzan James –
Interesting story of our times…mostly present day. Twists in the plot were done well. Surprises unfolded at the end. But the actual END was very very abrupt and left me unfulfilled.