Fourteen-year-old Angie and her mom are poised at the edge of homelessness… again. The problem is her little sister, Sophie. Sophie has an autism-like disorder, and a tendency to shriek. No matter where they live, home never seems to last long.
Until they move in with Aunt Vi, across the fence from a huge black Great Dane who changes everything. Sophie falls in love immediately, and begins to … begins to imitate the “inside of the dog,” which, fortunately, is a calm place. The shrieking stops. Everybody begins to breathe again. Until Paul Inverness, the dog’s grumpy, socially isolated owner, moves to the mountains, and it all begins again.
Much to Angie’s humiliation, when they’re thrown out of Aunt Vi’s house, Angie’s mom moves the family to the mountains after Paul and his dog. There, despite a fifty-year difference in their ages, Angie and Paul form a deep friendship, the only close friendship either has known. Angie is able to talk to him about growing up gay, and Paul trusts Angie with his greatest secret, his one dream. When the opportunity arrives, Angie decides to risk everything to help Paul’s dream come true, even their friendship and her one chance at a real home—the only thing she’s dreamed of since her father was killed. A place she can never be thrown out. A place she can feel she belongs.
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A mystery that you can’t solve although you try throughout the whole books. Keeps you interested throughout!!!
Cute book and easy to read. I enjoyed it.
When Kirby Rose turned 18 she was able to get her birth mother’s name and decides to go to New York to meet her. When successful television producer, Marian Caldwell opens the door of her apartment late one night she knows almost instantly that Kirby is the daughter she gave up for adoption when she was 18.
As Kirby and Marian get to know each …
The first book in this series is the best, this was just okay.
As always, Emily Giffin doesn’t disappoint!
Love this author’s work
One of Emily’s best!
I thoroughly enjoyed Where We Belong. The well-developed characters, story, internal conflicts and resolution felt real and believable.
I really enjoyed the audio book edition of this story. It was interesting to see the viewpoint of adoption from different aspects…the adopted child, the adoptive parents, the mother who gave up the child for adoption, the grandparents, etc. And I was pleased with how Kirby’s thoughts changed by the end of the book. Life and maturity will do …
This book alternated between two different points of view: a 36 year old woman and the 18 year old daughter she gave up for adoption when she was 18 herself. The writing was engaging and while the story does have a happy ending there are sufficient twists and turns to get to that ending.
I think this is one of my top 3 of all time. It shares space with Kristin Hannah’s Winter Garden and Barbara Delinsky’s Flirting With Pete. You feel totally involved with the outcome of the characters. Loved, loved, LOVED!
Kirby Rose has reached her senior year in high school. She is struggling with being interested in academics or athletics – like her younger sister, Charlotte. Kirby knows that many of their differences stem from the fact that she – Kirby – is adopted. She doesn’t know anything about her birthmother, except that she gave birth in a hospital in …