Greetings Mocha Girls!!
Please join Mocha Girl Classy and Mocha Girl Sharnise for a brief chat with author Naima Coster as she discusses her latest book, “What’s Mine And Yours.”
If you have any questions that you would like for us to address, please indicate when you RSVP.
Although we are grateful to have Ms. Coster join us and we appreciate her time, please note that this event will end promptly at 8:00 PM (EST). This means that we will only have 30 minutes to chat with her. Make sure to join us on time!
We are excited and hope to see you there!
~Mocha Girl Sharnise
About “What’s Mine And Yours”
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.
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.
About Naima Coster
Naima Coster is the author of two novels. Her debut, Halsey Street, was a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. It was recommended as a must-read by People, Essence, BitchMedia, Well-Read Black Girl, The Skimm, and the Brooklyn Public Library among others. Her forthcoming novel, What’s Mine and Yours, will be published in March 2021.
Naima’s stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Kweli, The Paris Review Daily, The Cut, The Sunday Times, Catapult, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree for 2020.
Naima has taught writing for over a decade in community settings, youth programs, and universities. Most recently, she has taught writing in the MFA programs at the City College of New York, Antioch University in L.A., and the University of Michigan.
Naima tweets as @zafatista and writes the newsletter, Bloom How You Must. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Author’s Links
https://twitter.com/zafatista
https://www.facebook.com/naima.coster
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16113141.Naima_Coster
http://instagram.com/naimacoster
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