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Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction. A modern-day story of
family, loss, and renewal, Halsey Street captures the deeply human
need to belong-not only to a place but to one another. Penelope
Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and
moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She's
accepted that her future won't be what she'd dreamed, but now, as
gentrification has completely reshaped her old neighborhood, even
her past is unrecognizable. Old haunts have been razed, and wealthy
white strangers have replaced every familiar face in Bed-Stuy. Even
her mother, Mirella, has abandoned the family to reclaim her roots
in the Dominican Republic. That took courage. It's also
unforgivable. When Penelope moves into the attic apartment of the
affluent Harpers, she thinks she's found a semblance of family-and
maybe even love. But her world is upended again when she receives a
postcard from Mirella asking for reconciliation. As old wounds are
reopened, and secrets revealed, a journey across an ocean of
sacrifice and self-discovery begins. An engrossing debut, Halsey
Street shifts between the perspectives of these two captivating,
troubled women. Mirella has one last chance to win back the heart
of the daughter she'd lost long before leaving New York, and for
Penelope, it's time to break free of the hold of the past and start
navigating her own life.
'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. Read this book' ANGIE CRUZ, author of Dominicana
************ 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.
With gorgeous prose, Naima Coster explores the unique organism that
is every family: what breaks them apart and how they come back
together. ********** 'What's Mine And Yours dips into many genres -
part coming-of-age novel, part family saga, part social commentary,
it doesn't shy away from addressing racial tension, the
hopelessness of addiction and how sometimes the choices parents
make to better their kids' lives end up doing the opposite' Stylist
'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. Read this book.' -ANGIE CRUZ, author of Dominicana
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.
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