One Maryland One Book
This fall, Frederick County Public Libraries will again participate in One Maryland One Book, a program from Maryland Humanities that strives to unite Marylanders of diverse backgrounds through the shared experience of reading the same book. Each year, from September through November, public libraries, schools, and community organizations across the state participate by hosting programs related to the book selection and its major themes. The 2022 One Maryland One Book title is What’s Mine and Yours by Naimi Coster.
Author Visit
Monday, October 3, 2022 - 7 p.m.
Frederick Community College's Jack B. Kussmaul Theater
This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required
About the Author
Naima Coster is the New York Times bestselling author of two novels and a recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honor. Her most recent novel, What’s Mine and Yours, was a Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club pick, a Book of the Month Club pick, and was named a best book of the year by Kirkus, Amazon, Esquire, Marie Claire, Ms. Magazine, The Millions, and Refinery29.
Naima’s first novel, Halsey Street, was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction and a semifinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Published in 2018, it was named a must-read book of the year by People, Essence, BitchMedia, Well-Read Black Girl, The Skimm, and the Brooklyn Public Library.
Naima’s stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Elle, Time, Kweli, The Cut, The Sunday Times, Catapult, The Paris Review Daily, among other publications, and in numerous anthologies. She is a graduate of Yale University, Fordham University, and the Columbia University School of the Arts, where she earned her MFA. She has taught writing for over a decade in community settings, youth programs, and universities. She currently teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Antioch University in L.A. She is a 2022 mentor for the Periplus Collective.
Naima is at work on her third novel about early motherhood, class mobility, and the lifelong friendship between two women. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
About the Book
A community in the Piedmont of North Carolina rises in outrage as a county initiative draws students from the largely Black east side of town into predominantly white high schools on the west. For two students, Gee and Noelle, the integration sets off a chain of events that will tie their two families together in unexpected ways over the span of the next twenty years.
What’s Mine and Yours is an expansive, vibrant tapestry that moves between the years, from the foothills of North Carolina, to Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Paris. It explores the unique organism that is every family: what breaks them apart and how they come back together.
Visit your local library to pick up a copy of What’s Mine and Yours today or check out the Audiobook or eBook from Overdrive
Previous One Maryland One Book Selections
- The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay.
- The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
- What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City by Mona Hanna-Attisha
- Bloodsworth by Tim Junkin
- Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
- The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
- The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande
- King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village by Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Outcasts United by Warren St. John
- Song Yet Sung by James McBride
- A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
Special thanks to our One Maryland One Book sponsors:
One Maryland One Book is a program of Maryland Humanities. This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Maryland State Library.