Título: What's Mine and Yours
Autor: Naima Coster
Sinopse: 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.
In the Piedmont of North Carolina, two families’ paths become unexpectedly intertwined over twenty years. Jade and Lacey May are two mothers determined to give their children the opportunities they never had. After a harrowing loss, Jade wants to hand down the tools her son, Gee, will need to survive in America as a sensitive young Black man. Meanwhile, Lacey May, having left the husband she loves, strives to protect her three half-Latina daughters from their charming father’s influence.
When a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into a predominantly white high school on the west, each mother stands on different sides of the integration debate. Gee meets Lacey May’s daughter Noelle during the school play, and their families begin to form deeply knotted, messy ties that will shape the trajectory of their adult lives. And their mothers make choices that will haunt them for decades to come.
What’s Mine and Yours is an expansive yet intimate multigenerational tapestry of motherhood, identity, and the legacies we inherit. It explores the unique organism that is every family: what breaks them apart and how they come back together.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “What’s Mine and Yours”, de Naima Coster, publicado pela editora Grand Central Publishing, em 2022 e com 368 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Grand Central Publishing
Páginas: 368
Ano: 2022-01-25
Edição: Reprint
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1538702339
ISBN13: 9781538702338
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Grand Central Publishing geralmente mergulham o leitor em tramas intensas e cheias de suspense, onde policiais, detetives e investigadores enfrentam casos complexos que envolvem crimes brutais, conspirações e segredos pessoais. O ritmo costuma ser ágil, com narrativas que combinam tensão crescente e reviravoltas, explorando tanto conflitos externos quanto dilemas internos dos personagens. Além do thriller e do suspense, o catálogo também inclui obras que trazem lições de liderança e motivação, bem como relatos pessoais marcantes, o que sugere uma variedade que vai do mais narrativo ao mais informativo. Essa diversidade permite ao leitor transitar entre histórias de investigação policial e memórias inspiradoras, sempre com um tom direto e envolvente.
