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Naima Coster

Quan Barry

Alyssa Cole

Sarah Cooper

Kate Atkinson

Salman Rushdie

Traci Thomas

Blythe Roberson

Mohsin Hamid

Tana French

Sonya Renee Taylor

Jen Gunter

Owen Egerton

Robert Repino

Chloe Benjamin

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"I don’t think my characters need to be part of some elite world or to be outstanding in any way to be interesting. Just their inner lives are interesting." - Naima Coster Naima Coster is the author of Halsey Street, a novel of family, loss, and renewal, set in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. Halsey Street has been recommended as a must-read for 2018 by People, Essence, Bustle, BitchMedia, The Skimm, and the Brooklyn Public Library. It was a Finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Coster’s second novel, What’s Mine and Yours, is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing. She lives in New York City with her family.  ENTER TO WIN A COPY OF HALSEY STREET + FBC GOODIES HERE.    Connect with Naima on Instagram @naimacoster, Twitter @zafatista or her website naimacoster.com.      Naima's book recommendation: Dominicana by Angie Cruz   This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Cup and Kettle Tea. Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop. -- Website: http://www.feministbookclub.com Instagram: @feministbookclubbox Twitter: @fmnstbookclub Facebook: /feministbookclubbox Email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dINNkn   -- Logo and web design by Shatterboxx  Editing support from Phalin Oliver Original music by @iam.onyxrose  Transcript for this episode: bit.ly/FBCtranscript51   Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at feministbookclub.com/shop.

"I don’t think my characters need to be part of some elite world or to be outstanding in any way to be interesting. Just their inner lives are interesting." - Naima Coster Naima Coster is the author of <a href="https://amzn.to/2q9lth7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Halsey Street</a>, a novel of family, loss, and renewal, set in a rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn. Halsey Street has been recommended as a must-read for 2018 by People, Essence, Bustle, BitchMedia, The Skimm, and the Brooklyn Public Library. It was a Finalist for the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Fiction. Coster’s second novel, What’s Mine and Yours, is forthcoming from Grand Central Publishing. She lives in New York City with her family.  <a href="http://bit.ly/FBCgiveaway51" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ENTER TO WIN A COPY OF HALSEY STREET + FBC GOODIES HERE. </a> Connect with Naima on Instagram @<a href="https://instagram.com/naimacoster" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">naimacoster</a>, Twitter @<a href="https://twitter.com/zafatista" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">zafatista</a> or her website <a href="http://naimacoster.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">naimacoster.com</a>.  Naima's book recommendation: <a href="https://amzn.to/2KiHCjU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dominicana by Angie Cruz</a> This episode is brought to you in collaboration with <a href="http://cupandkettletea.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cup and Kettle Tea.</a> Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at <a href="http://www.feministbookclub.com/shop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">feministbookclub.com/shop.</a> -- Website: <a href="http://www.feministbookclub.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.feministbookclub.com</a> Instagram: <a href="http://www.instagram.com/feministbookclubbox" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@feministbookclubbox</a> Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/fmnstbookclub" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@fmnstbookclub</a> Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/feministbookclubbox" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">/feministbookclubbox</a> Email newsletter: <a href="http://eepurl.com/dINNkn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://eepurl.com/dINNkn</a> -- Logo and web design by <a href="http://shatterboxx.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shatterboxx </a> Editing support from <a href="about.me/phalinoliver" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Phalin Oliver</a> Original music by @<a href="http://www.instagram.com/iam.onyxrose" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iam.onyxrose</a> Transcript for this episode: <a href="http://bit.ly/FBCtranscript51" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/FBCtranscript51</a>   Get $5 off your Feminist Book Club Box with the code PODCAST at <a href="http://www.feministbookclub.com/shop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">feministbookclub.com/shop.</a>

51: Naima Coster, author of Halsey Street

The Jennys shriek about Aragorn, discuss which books from their TBR piles they'll get into this summer, and talk about Naima Coster's debut novel Halsey Street.

The Jennys shriek about Aragorn, discuss which books from their TBR piles they'll get into this summer, and talk about Naima Coster's debut novel Halsey Street.

Episode 104 -Attacking the Summer TBR and Naima Coster's Halsey Street

Halsey Street is where Penelope Grand grew up, with her father, Ralph, who ran a locally famous record shop, and her mother, Mirella, who cleaned houses. It is the street from which she moved away, to try to forge her own life as a painter, and the street to which she returns, in her late 20s, to care for her father after her mother leaves him and moves back to the Dominican Republic. It’s a street that has suddenly become home to gourmet markets and sushi bars, a street that doesn't look the way it used to anymore. It's the place where Penelope has to figure out if or how she belongs, and who she is -- the place where she has to, in her mother’s words, "find her life."Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author Naima Coster about "the kinds of distance and intimacy that can exist between people across lines of class and race," "figuring out how to find freedom without running away," and "not wanting to write a book in which nobody raised their voices."Guest readers Emily Moore and Sophfronia Scott join Oppenheimer to discuss object studies, returning home, and what it means to be the woman in the attic.Order today! Available from:AmazonBarnes &amp; NobleIndieBound

Halsey Street is where Penelope Grand grew up, with her father, Ralph, who ran a locally famous record shop, and her mother, Mirella, who cleaned houses. It is the street from which she moved away, to try to forge her own life as a painter, and the street to which she returns, in her late 20s, to care for her father after her mother leaves him and moves back to the Dominican Republic. It’s a street that has suddenly become home to gourmet markets and sushi bars, a street that doesn't look the way it used to anymore. It's the place where Penelope has to figure out if or how she belongs, and who she is -- the place where she has to, in her mother’s words, "find her life."Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author <a href="https://www.naimacoster.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Naima Coster</a> about "the kinds of distance and intimacy that can exist between people across lines of class and race," "figuring out how to find freedom without running away," and "not wanting to write a book in which nobody raised their voices."Guest readers <a href="http://www.booktalkradio.net/about-our-readers/2016/6/27/emily-moore" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Emily Moore</a> and <a href="http://www.booktalkradio.net/about-our-readers/2016/7/17/sophfronia-scott" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sophfronia Scott</a> join Oppenheimer to discuss object studies, returning home, and what it means to be the woman in the attic.Order today! Available from: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Halsey-Street-Naima-Coster/dp/1503941175" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon</a> <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/halsey-street-naima-coster/1126002798?ean=9781503941175" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barnes &amp; Noble</a> <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781503941175" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IndieBound</a>

Episode 52: Halsey Street by Naima Coster