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Belong to Me: A Novel (original 2008; edition 2008)

by Marisa De Los Santos

Series: Cornelia Brown (2)

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"Marisa de los Santos's Belong to Me is my favorite discovery of the past years: a terrific page-turner that's also poignant, funny, surprising and deeply heartfelt." --Harlan Coben   "Complex, engaging, and surprisingly moving." --Boston Globe The sensational New York Times bestseller from Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me is a gift for readers, an enchanting, luminous novel about the accidents, both big and small, that affect our choice of friend, lover, and spouse. A story centered around three very different suburban neighbors and what it truly means to "belong" to someone, this eye-opening, unforgettable book is the perfect book club selection--beautifully written, smart and sophisticated women's fiction that invites discussion as it touches the heart--and the ideal companion to de los Santos's previous blockbuster, Love Walked In.… (more)
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Title:Belong to Me: A Novel
Authors:Marisa De Los Santos
Info:William Morrow (2008), Edition: 1, Hardcover, 400 pages
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Belong to Me by Marisa de los Santos (2008)

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    Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos (alaskabookworm)
    alaskabookworm: Though "Belong To Me" is a stand-alone book, "Love Walked In" is actually came first and has some of the same characters.
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Family Drama
  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
Very good story of finding themselves and each other.
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
Three new friends, some easy to love, some easy to hate - all human. Great story. ( )
  autumnesf | Feb 18, 2023 |
LOVED this! Characters were so developed...they felt like they were sitting right next to you. One drawback was that sometimes she tried to get you to know them too well. ( )
  Erica8 | Dec 8, 2021 |
I think this book will be percolating in my head for a long time. Belong To Me is beautifully written, and is one of the best approaches I've seen to a multi-perspective story. Especially in the early chapters, de los Santos gives such keenly insightful glimpses into how women relate to each other and see themselves, and how guardedly they dip their toes into trust and friendship that it's almost uncomfortable to read. In the end, though, her reflections on family and love and the sometimes serendipitous-seeming miracle of how people come to belong to us (and vice versa) were very moving. Also, it's just a great story! ( )
  CaitlinMcC | Jul 11, 2021 |
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For Charles and Annabel, my sleek brown otters.
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My fall from suburban grace, or more accurately, my failure to achieve the merest molehill of suburban grace from which to fall, began with a dinner party and a perfectly innocent, modestly clever, and only faintly quirky remark about Armand Assante.
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"Marisa de los Santos's Belong to Me is my favorite discovery of the past years: a terrific page-turner that's also poignant, funny, surprising and deeply heartfelt." --Harlan Coben   "Complex, engaging, and surprisingly moving." --Boston Globe The sensational New York Times bestseller from Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me is a gift for readers, an enchanting, luminous novel about the accidents, both big and small, that affect our choice of friend, lover, and spouse. A story centered around three very different suburban neighbors and what it truly means to "belong" to someone, this eye-opening, unforgettable book is the perfect book club selection--beautifully written, smart and sophisticated women's fiction that invites discussion as it touches the heart--and the ideal companion to de los Santos's previous blockbuster, Love Walked In.

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In Belong To Me, we meet charming, insightful Cornelia Brown as she struggles to forge friendships with the women in her new toen and discovers that even the most joyful marriage can encounter unexpected, and sometimes frightening, hurdles. Across the street lives Piper Truitt, a blond, imperious queen bee whose complex inner self breaks to the surface of her picture-perfect life as she cares for her best friend, recently diagnosed with cancer. And then is Lake, the feisty mother of sensitive, whip-smart Dev, who has moved to Cornelia's town so her son can attend a school for gifted students, but who actually habors a deeper motive. As their stories unfold, these characters become entangled in a web of trust, betrayal, love, and loss that challenges them in ways they never imagined and that ultimately teaches them what it means for one human being to belong to another. With wit and charm, de los Santos explores the accidents both big and small that magically converge to make up a life, delivering to us a wonderfully luminous and enchanting story.
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