Mine and Yours
A Novel
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Anna Brenner
"A brilliant, daring debut.”—Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
It’s 2013, and one-time women’s and gender studies major Alison Klausner is, somehow—not for any reason her sister, Charlotte, can begin to accept—a producer on the sexist reality dating show The Catch. It’s as though Ali has constructed her life in order to be as cynical about both love and her fellow man as possible.
But if Ali is cynical about love, well, maybe Charlotte has only herself to blame: because what happiness has love brought Charlotte? To Ali, it's plain that her sister is depressed and adrift, utterly subsumed in her marriage to her gallingly competent college girlfriend, Elaine. Not that Charlotte would ever admit to any of it.
Into Ali’s world comes Will, the new lead of The Catch and maybe a genuinely good guy. Charged with manipulating Will for television, Ali soon develops feelings for him as dangerous as they are humiliating, an attraction that will threaten both her job and her sense of self. Meanwhile, under the mounting pressure of her wife’s desire for a baby, Charlotte finds herself marching toward both parenthood and the recognition that she’s been more lost than she knew.
Witty, sexy, and poignant, Mine and Yours is a winning homage to Austen’s Sense and Sensibility for the age of reality TV and IVF, a novel about sisterhood and about how falling in love can lead us not just away from but back toward our families.
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Critics' reviews
“What does it mean to have a family when you are still going over unfinished business with the one that raised you, and is that business ever finished? Who do we ever belong to and why? Mine and Yours moves like a thriller but the villains are all at home, everyone you love. A brilliant, daring debut.”—Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
“A smart, engaging, and memorable debut, this is a story of two sisters, of romance and marriage, intimacy, and estrangement. The setting is entirely contemporary but haunted throughout by the faint ghost of Jane Austen who would likely be equal parts pleased and shocked if she could read it. My own reading, however, was nothing but pleasure.”—Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club
“Anna Brenner’s Mine and Yours is an intimate, deeply pleasurable portrait of contentious yet inextricably connected sisters, Ali and Charlotte Klausner, each struggling to maintain a sense of self in the face of challenges at home and work that threaten to swallow them up. Told through alternating chapters from each sister’s perspective, Brenner’s novel is both page-turningly entertaining and profoundly empathetic. I finished it yearning for a sister of my own and for this brilliant author’s next book.”—Cynthia Weiner, author of A Gorgeous Excitement
“A smart, engaging, and memorable debut, this is a story of two sisters, of romance and marriage, intimacy, and estrangement. The setting is entirely contemporary but haunted throughout by the faint ghost of Jane Austen who would likely be equal parts pleased and shocked if she could read it. My own reading, however, was nothing but pleasure.”—Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club
“Anna Brenner’s Mine and Yours is an intimate, deeply pleasurable portrait of contentious yet inextricably connected sisters, Ali and Charlotte Klausner, each struggling to maintain a sense of self in the face of challenges at home and work that threaten to swallow them up. Told through alternating chapters from each sister’s perspective, Brenner’s novel is both page-turningly entertaining and profoundly empathetic. I finished it yearning for a sister of my own and for this brilliant author’s next book.”—Cynthia Weiner, author of A Gorgeous Excitement
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