Where We Belong

Dates Read: July 2013
On the way home from my business trip, I was not in the mood to do technical reading, but I wanted something to read to kill time at the airport and on the plane so I picked up Where We Belong (and Calico Joe). I ended up talking to coworkers while killing time at the airport, so instead this was a great night time reading book. And it was great - except that I stayed up waaaay too late for a few nights because I couldn't stop reading. 

The story alternates between two perspectives and I found myself constantly reading one perspective and then wanting to read the next chapter to get the other perspective. Definitely a fun, girly read!

Summary: (from amazon.com)

Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six-year-old television producer living her dream in New York City. With a fulfilling career and picture-perfect 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 locked away forever.

From the moment Kirby appears on her doorstep, Marian’s meticulously constructed world will be shaken to its core, resurrecting memories of a passionate young love affair that threaten everything that has come to define her. For the precocious and headstrong Kirby, the encounter will spur a process of discovery that ushers her across the threshold of adulthood, forcing her to reevaluate her family and future in a wise and bittersweet light.

As Marian and Kirby embark on a quest 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.