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!
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