Language eng Summary The author of several blockbuster novels, Emily Giffin's Where We Belong delivers an unforgettable story of two women, the families that make them who they are, and the longing, loyalty and love that binds them together Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York City. Label Where We Belong Title Where We Belong Statement of responsibility Emily Giffin Creator 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 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.
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. 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.
Summary The author of several blockbuster novels, Emily Giffin's Where We Belong delivers an unforgettable story of two women, the families that make them who they are, and the longing, loyalty and love that binds them together Marian Caldwell is a thirty-six year old television producer, living her dream in New York City. Paul Laurence Dunbar Lancaster-Kiest Branch Library.Central Library - 8th Floor - Genealogy.Are people more influenced by their genes or their upbringing? How does this question relate to the events in the novel? How do you think the various characters in this book might define family?ĥ. What are the most significant ways they've changed? What risks do they each take? Was there any decision or action you disagree with on the part of Marian or Kirby?Ĥ. Kirby and Marian both change over the course of this story.
Which character has the most to forgive? Do you think Conrad will ever be able to fully forgive Marian? Has Marian forgiven her parents? Has Kirby forgiven hers?ģ. Discuss the issue of forgiveness in the book. Do you think secrets and lies are one in the same? How do the characters in the novel accept or come to terms with the secrets they've kept or the ones that have been kept from them?Ģ. Describe the secrets in this book and the reasons various characters had for keeping them. One of the themes in Where We Belong is what happens when we keep secrets.
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