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Two Determined Mothers Clash Over Integration Efforts In 'What's Mine And Yours'

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Naima Coster about her novel 'What's Mine And Yours,' about a North Carolina high school in the middle of an integration program in the early 2000
<em>What's Mine and Yours</em>, by Naima Coster

At the center of Naima Coster's new novel, What's Mine and Yours are two determined and difficult mothers, equal and opposite forces.

There's Jade, whom Coster describes as "a woman who is trying to figure out how to pursue her own ambitions while also taking care of a child on her own." And Lacey May, "a woman who is struggling financially and trying to secure a future for her girls that she wasn't

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