Naima Coster, WHAT'S MINE AND YOURS
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Zibby Owens
4.5 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Naima Coster's latest novel, What’s Mine and Yours, was an instant New York Times bestseller, not to mention both a Read with Jenna and Book of the Month Club pick. Naima talks with Zibby about the ways in which her intergenerational trauma has led her to write more optimistic familial dynamics, how it took her two years of deferring medical school to admit she wanted to be a writer, and why her self-doubt is essential to her writing process.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
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| 0:39.2 | Another day of the June book blast. Today is family-related fiction, and I hope you enjoy these episodes. |
| 0:45.1 | Naima Costa is the author of What's Mine and Yours a novel. Nima is the author of two novels, |
| 0:49.9 | actually. Her debut is Halsey Street, which was a finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction and was long listed for the VCU Cabell or Cable, I don't know, first novelist award. |
| 1:00.5 | It was recommended as a must read by people, essence, bitch media, well-read black girl, the skim, and the Brooklyn Public Library among others. |
| 1:08.5 | Nima's stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, |
| 1:11.4 | Queli, the Paris Review, Daily, the Cut, the Sunday Times, Catapult, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. |
| 1:17.2 | She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honoree for 2020. |
| 1:21.3 | Naima has taught writing for over a decade in community settings, youth programs, and universities. |
| 1:26.4 | 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 also writes the newsletter, Bloom How You Must. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her family. Welcome, Naima. Thank you so much for coming on Mom's Now Time to read books to discuss what's mine and yours. Thank you so much for having me, Zibi. |
| 1:45.4 | I'm delighted that this copy of the book that I'm holding is mine. |
| 1:49.7 | Not yours, but this one's mine. |
| 1:53.0 | So congratulations on it being a read with Jenna Pick and bestseller and all of that. |
| 1:57.6 | It must feel so exciting. |
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