TAKE WHAT YOU CAN Tests the Limits of Chosen Family

Somewhere in France, two girls launch a boat into the sea. So begins Naima Coster’s latest novel, Take What You Can. We follow the girls—Milly and Val—as they navigate the waves and, as the novel unfolds further, become successful women, continuously pulled against the uneven terrain of their marriages, babies, careers, and the unfettered love that exists between them. 

In adulthood, after years of long-distance friendship, Milly and Val’s relationship takes a new form when Val and her husband uproot themselves at Mill...