Take What You Can is so brilliantly, unbelievably good I have a burning in my heart.... Love is utterly bewildering, and nobody writes about it better than Naima Coster.
A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 according to People. From the New York Times bestselling author of What’s Mine and Yours comes a panoramic story of female friendship, motherhood, and independence. Val and Milly reunite to raise their daughters together—but who are they without the woman who once bound them?
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A Most Anticipated Book of 2026 according to People — and one we’ve been eager to press into your hands.
From the New York Times bestselling author of What’s Mine and Yours comes a rich, panoramic story of female friendship, class, new motherhood, and the fierce pull toward independence.
Val and Milly fell in love with France at the very same moment they fell in love with each other. The only two Black students on a study-abroad trip, they became instant best friends — two motherless daughters taken under the wing of an older woman named Helene, who showed them the shape of a bigger life.
Now they’re in their thirties. Married. Each expecting a baby girl. When Milly suggests they raise their daughters together in New York after a decade apart, it’s a resounding yes.
But quietly, they wonder. Did their friendship only ever work as a trio? Without Helene, who are Milly and Val to each other?
Coster weaves between Brooklyn brownstones and the glittering beaches of southern France, tracing the tender, complicated business of staying someone’s person through every season of life.
“Take What You Can is so brilliantly, unbelievably good I have a burning in my heart…. Love is utterly bewildering, and nobody writes about it better than Naima Coster.” —Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich
This is a novel to linger with. Pour a cup of tea, settle in as the sea air rolls past the window, and let these two women pull you all the way in. A hardcover worth making room for on your shelf.
Take What You Can is so brilliantly, unbelievably good I have a burning in my heart.... Love is utterly bewildering, and nobody writes about it better than Naima Coster.
| Weight | 1.20 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 6.00 × 0.91 × 9.00 in |
| Book Author | Naima Coster |
| Fiction Type | |
| Subject | Dramas & Plays, Family Life, Friendship, Genre Fiction, Hispanic, Literature & Fiction, Type, United States |
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