What's Mine and Yours by Naima CosterMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
I found it hard to connect with the characters in this book. This story is about two families, in the same town, both broken and dysfunctional in some way, with the mother’s being the strong ones trying to raise their kids. We have many characters, with their own point of view, along with different timelines. This created a fractured tale that was difficult to get into to fully understand the people and their stories.
It isn’t until nearly half-way through the book the major plot event happens, with the local high school wanting to combine both sides of town to give all the kids an equal chance. Some families don’t want the “bad kids” really people of color, to lower their white kids chances at a good college. The parents seem more upset about this than the kids, who come together, new and old students, by producing a Shakespeare play.
In addition to the plot there's plenty of individual family drama, within the different timelines, marriages not working out, and such. It’s not that long of a book for all these different narrations going on. However, in the end it does seem to pull together, although for me, not very satisfying.
Thanks to Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for an uncorrected electronic advance review copy of this book.
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