What's Not Mine

“With a fine attunement to the unique challenges of being a teenage girl, first novelist Decter writes in the compelling voice of a young woman veering towards an edge she can sense but can’t seem to avoid.” — Booklist“With humor and a lack of sentimentality, Decter portrays an adolescent girl and her town facing serious environmental and social challenges.” — Library Journal“Nora Decter has written a wrenching, knowing, and wry novel about coming of age into a rough world. Skillful and appealingly deadpan, What’s Not Mine explores the quest for solace, belonging, and distractions. Decter is a fine writer, and this is a memorable novel.” — Meg Wolitzer, author of The Female Persuasion“What’s Not Mine is both a wild summer drug story and a moving account of a tough teenage girl trying to navigate the mad, sad world of adult failure. Decter deftly describes the casual, corrosive misogyny that closes in on young women like a pack of dogs and the trickiness of addiction. I couldn’t put it down.” — Zoe Whittall, author of The Fake“Contemporary fiction readers looking for equal parts grit and heart will enjoy this one.” — Library Journal

Nora Decter is a writer from Treaty 1 Territory. She studied creative writing at York University and Stony Brook University, and in 2019 received the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for literary fiction for her YA novel How Far We Go and How Fast. Nora lives in Winnipeg with her partner and their two cats, near the foot of Garbage Hill.

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