About What's Mine:
A self-described “visual” person, Luis filled his white-carpeted apartment with nice, clean things: a glass table, a white couch, marble counters, workout equipment. He can afford to support himself on his meager salary at a bagel shop thanks to the inheritance of his mother's city apartment. It is his home, a refuge from a confusing and intimidating world.
Professor William Rose is an Oxford intellectual. He travels to Amsterdam to learn where he came from with the help of an old letter that could prove that Edward Hond, the famous Dutch philanthropist, is his biological father. After the letter's address, he finds himself looking through the lit windows of a small one-bedroom apartment…only to see Luis. His choice to knock on the door, and Luis's choice to let him in, will expose each of their pasts, dismantling their lives as fifty square meters of meticulously decorated space become a territorial battlefield.
What's Mine is Bette Adriaanse's humorous and heartbreaking story about two men who refuse to share. Luis and William's conflicting worldviews, not to mention their lifestyle habits, will test the limits of their sanity as well as those around them. A nosy neighbor, a philosophical housekeeper, a maritime lawyer and the old park gardener will all begin searching for the answer to a crucial question: can what is mine also be yours?
About the authors:
Bette Adriaanse is a writer and artist. She was born in Amsterdam in 1984. Bette graduated from the Image and Language department at the Gerrit Rietveld Fine Art Academy in Amsterdam and received her Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford. His first novel Rus Like Everyone Else was published by Unnamed Press in 2015. The novel appeared under the title Post Voor Rus Ordelman in the Netherlands. His second novel, What's Mine, will be published by Unnamed Press in August 2023. It will appear under the title Wat Van Mij Is in the Netherlands, with Uitgeverij Cossee. Bette writes in English and Dutch. Bette is co-founder of the TRQSE Foundation, an international network of artists, scientists, media and business professionals who want to work together on social projects. She is also co-founder of Heroines! Movement.
Caoilinn Hughes is the author of THE WILD LAUGHTER (2020), which won the Royal Society of Literature Encore Prize, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and was a finalist for three other awards. Her debut novel, ORCHID & THE WASP (2018), won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was shortlisted for the Dublin International Literary Prize. Her short stories won the Moth Short Story Prize, the Irish Book Awards 2020 Story of the Year and an O.Henry Prize. Her third novel, THE ALTERNATIVES, will be published by Riverhead in April 2024. She will be a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library for 2023-2024.
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