Chick-Lit often gets a bad wrap. It's treated like junk food, tastes really good but not really worth the calories. But like any genre there are good books and not so good books.
I find Emily Giffin books to be among the really good ones. They are more then just light and fluffy cotton candy, they are more substantial, think a really good gelato.
Where We Belong is a story about what it means to be a family set against the story of a teenager, Kirby, who has always known she is adopted feeling like she doesn't fit in with her family and so upon turning 18 chooses to find her birth-parents, Marian and Conrad.
Learning to find out who you are and where you belong, how to forgive and be open, what is means to love, isn't easy at any age and in the most normal of families. Add in all the additional stresses that happen when biological families and the families that adopted their baby try to become one and it's so much harder. That's the story that Giffin tells here.
(Finished March 23, 2014)
Other books by Emily Giffin I have read:
Heart of the Matter
Love the One You're With
Something Borrowed
Something Blue
the diary of darcy j. rhone
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