Dominican Readers Book Club: Take What You Can
Sat, Sep 26
|The Fountain Bookshop
Time & Location
Sep 26, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
The Fountain Bookshop, 803 W 187th St, New York, NY 10033, USA
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September Book Club: Take What You Can by Naima Coster
This September, the Dominican Readers Book Club is reading Take What You Can by Naima Coster—a novel about the friendships that become family, the lives we imagine for ourselves, and what happens when love, motherhood, ambition, and change begin to test the bonds we thought would last forever.
Join us as we read, reflect, and come together for a special in-person book club conversation at Fountain Bookshop on September 26 at 6:30 PM.
Val and Milly fell in love with France at the same time they fell in love with each other and became immediate best friends. Then, they bonded as the only Black students on a study-abroad trip. Now they are in their thirties, each married and with a baby girl on the way. When Milly suggests Val move to New York so they can raise their daughters…