is that special type of story that takes priority over getting to bed on time. Luckily, the author executes with a thoughtful finesse that makes this easily her best work yet. 'After five charming relationship-themed hits, Emily Giffin had a lot to live up to with WHERE WE BELONG.

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. 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.įor 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. only to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. But one night, Marian answers a knock on the door. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be.

Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York City.

Where We Belong by Emily Giffin