Category:
African-American Interest
Regular worth:
$11.99
Deal worth:
$2.99
Deal begins:
January 27, 2023
Deal ends:
January 27, 2023
A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!
An on the spot 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 writer 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 writer of Halsey Street, a sweeping novel of legacy, id, the American household—and the ways in which race impacts even our most intimate relationships.
A neighborhood within the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative attracts college students from the largely Black east aspect of city into predominantly white excessive faculties on the west. For two college students, Gee and Noelle, the combination units off a sequence of occasions that can tie their two households collectively in sudden methods over the subsequent twenty years.
On one aspect of the combination debate is Jade, Gee’s steely, formidable mom. In the aftermath of a harrowing loss, she is decided to provide her son the instruments he’ll have to survive in America as a delicate, anxious, younger Black man. On the opposite aspect is Noelle’s headstrong mom, Lacey May, a white lady who refuses to see her half-Latina daughters as something however white. She strives to guard them as she could not defend herself from the affect of their charming however unreliable father, Robbie.
When Gee and Noelle be part of the varsity play meant to bridge the divide between new and previous college students, their paths collide, and their two seemingly disconnected households start to kind deeply knotted, messy ties that can form the trajectory of their grownup lives. And their moms—every decided to see her youngster inherit a greater life—will make selections that can hang-out them for many years to come back.
As love is constructed and misplaced, and the previous by no means too far behind, What’s Mine and Yours is an expansive, vibrant tapestry that strikes between the years, from the foothills of North Carolina, to Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Paris. It explores the distinctive organism that’s each household: what breaks them aside and how they arrive again collectively.
Discussion about this post