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What's Mine and Yours by Naima Coster
3.0
Rating: 3.5 Stars
I don’t know how to explain very well how I felt about this book. It is literary fiction, which means it is heavy in character development and not plot. It took me about 3 weeks to read because it is slow paced. However, I really enjoyed the story. I think the synopsis is a little misleading so don’t read much about it before reading it. The synopsis mentions that there is a school integration issue as part of the story but that is not much of the plot. It is something that happens but it’s not really part of the plot of the story, I wanted more of that.
One of the things I liked about the book was the writing, Coster is very talented and I enjoyed the multiple timelines/point of views. The story covers the topics of cultural and implicit bias, how our childhood shapes who we are, interracial relationships and classism. It is a very thought provoking book and probably good for a book club discussion.
I had high expectations of this book, it was one of my most anticipated books of the year and it was a Read with Jenna pick. Overall I think it is a good book but not one that I loved.
I don’t know how to explain very well how I felt about this book. It is literary fiction, which means it is heavy in character development and not plot. It took me about 3 weeks to read because it is slow paced. However, I really enjoyed the story. I think the synopsis is a little misleading so don’t read much about it before reading it. The synopsis mentions that there is a school integration issue as part of the story but that is not much of the plot. It is something that happens but it’s not really part of the plot of the story, I wanted more of that.
One of the things I liked about the book was the writing, Coster is very talented and I enjoyed the multiple timelines/point of views. The story covers the topics of cultural and implicit bias, how our childhood shapes who we are, interracial relationships and classism. It is a very thought provoking book and probably good for a book club discussion.
I had high expectations of this book, it was one of my most anticipated books of the year and it was a Read with Jenna pick. Overall I think it is a good book but not one that I loved.