| International Standard Book Number |
9781538702345 hardcover
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| International Standard Book Number |
1538702347 hardcover
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| Personal Name |
Coster, Naima, 1986- author.
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| Title Statement |
What's mine and yours : a novel / Naima Coster.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group, 2021.
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| Physical Description |
341 pages ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
"Read with Jenna"--Jacket.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly all-white high school on the west, the community rises in outrage. For two students, quiet and aloof Gee and headstrong Noelle, these divisions will extend far beyond their schooling. As their paths collide and overlap over the course of thirty years, their two seemingly disconnected families begin to form deeply knotted, messy ties that shape the trajectory of their lives. On one side of the school integration debate is Jade, Gee's steely, single, black mother, grieving for her murdered partner, and determined for her son to have the best chance at a better life. On the other, is Noelle's enterprising mother, Lacey May, who refuses to see her half-Latina daughters as anything but white. The choices these mothers make will resound for years to come. And twenty years later, when Lacey's daughters return home to visit her in hospital, they're forced to confront the ways their parents' decisions continue to affect the life they live and the people they love. WHAT'S MINE AND YOURS is a sweeping, rich tapestry of familial bond and identity, and a sharp, poignant look at the ways race affects even the closest of relationships. This is not just one love story, but many: It's the all-consuming volatile passion of young lovers and the quieter comfort of steady companionship; it's the often tenuous but unbreakable bond between siblings; and it's the unconditional love that runs between parent and child and encompasses adoration, contempt and forgiveness. With gorgeous prose, Naima Coster explores the unique organism that is every family: what breaks them apart and how they come back together"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Race relations Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mother and child Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Racism Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
School integration Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Racially mixed children Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Families North Carolina Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Parents of racially mixed children Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Jenna's book club.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
North Carolina Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Social problem fiction.
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