“Naima Coster may have written the sweeping, spellbinding, cascading saga of the year.”—MS. MAGAZINE

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Praise for What’s Mine and Yours

Named a Best Book of 2021 by

Amazon • Esquire • Marie Claire • Refinery29 • Kirkus • Redbook • Ms. Magazine • The Millions

“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

“A once every few years reading experience” —MARY BETH KEANE, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes

“A quietly brilliant novel. By turns searing and tender.” —AMAZON BOOK REVIEW

“Naima Coster has achieved a rare thing: She’s written a book both timely and timeless, one that transcends era and audience.”—MARIE CLAIRE

“Coster balances the tender and the sharp moments shared between families better than anyone else writing.”—ELIZABETH ACEVEDO, National Book Award winning author of The Poet X

“A novel of scorching beauty.”—PATRICIA ENGEL, New York Times bestselling author of Infinite Country

“Coster’s remarkable characters, each one of them authentically flawed and gorgeously realized, propel this wise and loving story ever forward, making for a graceful meditation on family, inequality, and the ties that bind.” —ESQUIRE


“[A] piercing examination of race, identity and generational trauma.”—TIME.COM

“A wholly different kind of family novel.”—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

“An intimate portrait of love, motherhood, class and race.”—PARADE

“Coster weaves together a gripping portrait of generational pain. Tender but—miraculously—never sentimental.”—KIRKUS (starred review)

“A sweeping, fresh new novel…the story is epic in scope. It is about understanding the demons and the hardships that come before us and how they affect our lives.”—JENNA BUSH HAGER, The Today Show

“Rare is the book that manages to be both a finely wrought character study as well as a multi-family saga, sweeping in scope, that offers lucid insight into the ways a legacy of trauma can inflict and infect generations to come, but Naima Coster's new novel does just that — and more…. Coster writes with a singular sensitivity and nuance as she explores questions about identity and family, never losing sight of what each of her individual characters is enduring, always treating their pain and their joy as something special, something sacred.” —REFINERY29


“A rich, emotionally complex story about family and identity, What’s Mine and Yours is both intimate and sweeping: an exploration of many kinds of love, the repercussions of long-ago decisions, and the burdens of personal and political history. In deft, elegant prose, Naima Coster limns passions and betrayals and long-held grievances, the ties that bind and the ones that fray and tatter. I loved this novel.” —CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train and The Exiles

“What's Mine and Yours is powerful and unfailingly generous, a story of two families you won’t be able to forget. Marvelously profound and moving.”—R.O. KWON, author of The Incendiaries

“Moving fluidly between perspectives and time, What’s Mine and Yours is a mesmerizing story of two families brought together through choice and circumstance in one North Carolina town. Naima Coster is a storyteller of astounding clarity and compassion.”—LISA KO, author of National Book Award finalist The Leavers

 “What’s Mine and Yours was a once-every-few-years reading experience for me. I began without knowing a thing, and was completely seduced by the honesty of Coster’s prose, the tenderness she has for her characters. The story kept growing larger, it moved closer, and every detail felt like something I could see and feel. To say Coster pulls off something special here is a massive understatement. I’ve placed this novel on a shelf among those most dear to me, and I imagine I’ll return to it many, many times.”—MARY BETH KEANE, New York Times bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes 

“Naima Coster's What's Mine and Yours patiently and unerringly tracks the boundaries, unearths the secrets, and stares unblinkingly at what's essential to knowing oneself and the larger histories we're forced to navigate. A beautifully-wrought investigation of family, race, inheritance, and belonging.”—CRISTINA GARCÍA, author of Here in Berlin and Dreaming in Cuban

 “What’s Mine And Yours is a powerful and timely family saga about the complex webs forged by love and tragedy — gripping, generous, and deeply felt. It’s a moving examination of what we inherit, and what it means to love both wholeheartedly and imperfectly. This is a book, in other words, for anyone who’s ever had a family.”—RACHEL KHONG, author of Goodbye, Vitamin  

 “What's Mine and Yours is a book about parents who try and fail and then try again. An extraordinary cast of characters, nuanced and full of insight. It reveals in absolutely engrossing and tension-filled prose how a tragedy haunts a family. Coster is a master storyteller through and through. Read this book.”—ANGIE CRUZ, author of Dominicana  

“Through its flawed and flawlessly crafted ensemble cast, Naima Coster's What's Mine and Yours shows us how a single tragedy ripples through two families and a community already on the edge. Crisscrossing time, states, and the Atlantic Ocean, Coster explores the complexities of marriage, race, and family ties in this engrossing and deftly woven novel.”—MELISSA RIVERO, author of The Affairs of the Falcóns 

“From the stunning opening chapter—a masterpiece of tension and empathy—Coster's story moves from moment to moment of startling grace, tracing the lives of a group of characters I came to love as deeply as people I've known in real life. Multiple times, it moved me to tears. An exquisite and vital portrait of family, place, and the bonds that transform our lives, What’s Mine and Yours is more than a beautiful read - it's an essential one, destined to be talked about for years to come as a book that saw the world and spoke the truth with tenderness, wisdom, and love.”—JULIE BUNTIN, author of Marlena

 “Naima Coster weaves a beautiful tapestry of voices together in What’s Mine and Yours. This is a sprawling, moving narrative about the messiness of love and family, mothering, race, and community. Here we follow two families connected by place and circumstance as they try to free themselves of those bonds. The result? Rich, complex individual stories that merge to form a satisfying, startling end.”—CRYSTAL HANA KIM, author of If You Leave Me