“But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.”

Chick Lit Superstar Emily Giffin is back!  I was starting to have my doubts about Miss Giffin for awhile there.  I, like many, fell in love with Something Borrowed and Something Blue.  However, things started to go downhill for me with Baby Proof and Love the One You're With.  I just couldn't connect with the characters and the stories the same way I did with her earlier novels.  I was concerned.  Things got better with Heart of the Matter and I think that with her newest novel, Where We Belong, we are back in business! 

Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York City. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be. But one night, Marian answers a knock on the door . . . only to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. From the moment Kirby appears on her doorstep, Marian’s perfectly constructed world—and her very identity—will be shaken to its core, resurrecting ghosts and memories of a passionate young love affair that threaten everything that has come to define her.

For the precocious and determined Kirby, the encounter will spur a process of discovery that ushers her across the threshold of adulthood, forcing her to re-evaluate her family and future in a wise and bittersweet light. As the two women embark on a journey to find the one thing missing in their lives, each will come to recognize that where we belong is often where we least expect to find ourselves—a place that we may have willed ourselves to forget, but that the heart remembers forever

I loved Kirby right off the bat and Marian grew on me by the end of the novel.  A perfect summer beach read!