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Belong to Me

by Marisa de los Santos (Goodreads Author)

3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 · rating details · 15,576 ratings · 2,678 reviews

Everyone has secrets. Some we keep to protect ourselves, others we keep to protect those we love.

Cornelia Brown surprised herself when she was gripped by the sudden, inescapable desire to move with her husband to the suburbs. Her mettle is quickly tested by her impeccably dressed, overly judgmental neighbor Piper Truitt—the embodiment of everything Cornelia feared she'd fi...more

Paperback, 496 pages

Published June 28th 2011 by Avon (first published April 1st 2008)

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May 01, 2008 Lara rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: for-harper-collins

I'm basically copying this from what I wrote on my blog, which is why it's so lengthy:

I thought this was positively delicious. And I’m not just saying that because I got the book for free, either. I’m not afraid to trash free stuff, you know (Hi there, Old Navy Jeans! You still suck!). I’m saying it because it really is lovely.

I first encountered Ms. de los Santos’s writing when I picked up her book Love Walked In off one of those tables at the megabookstore with the “buy 2 paperbacks for the pr...more I'm basically copying this from what I wrote on my blog, which is why it's so lengthy:

I thought this was positively delicious. And I’m not just saying that because I got the book for free, either. I’m not afraid to trash free stuff, you know (Hi there, Old Navy Jeans! You still suck!). I’m saying it because it really is lovely.

I first encountered Ms. de los Santos’s writing when I picked up her book Love Walked In off one of those tables at the megabookstore with the “buy 2 paperbacks for the price of 3″ signs or whatever. I don’t think I’ve ever hidden the fact that I am a sucker for an attractive book cover despite all proverbial advice not to choose one’s reading material (or anything else) that way, and the cover for Love Walked In spoke to me. Anyway, I ended up loving the book and was so pleased to learn that de los Santos was building further upon those characters with Belong to Me.

Reading Belong to Me is like walking around with one of those geared-towards-children “READING IS FUN!” posters pinned to your back. That’s what it is: pure, unadulterated fun. It is a 390-page reminder of why I love to read. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me roll my eyes at the questionable realism, it made me snort, it made me nod my head in agreement, and it made me want to jump into the pages and hang out with most of the characters and then it made me want to jump out of the pages and hang out with the author. I mean, sure, we read books sometimes because we want to be moved at our very core or because we want to feel intellectual or because we want to learn or because it won a Pulitzer or a Booker Prize or whatever. But sometimes we read to be entertained. Belong to Me does just that - and the best thing about it is that it does that without being too embarrassingly vapid or chick lit-ish.

It doesn’t hurt that I want to be friends with Cornelia Brown, the main character, either, despite the fact that she describes herself as weighing about the same as “your average sack of groceries” (I tend to resent thin people). I can get past that - easily - with her description of her first suburban dinner party:

“It was a pastel-colored prairie of linen pants and sleeveless tops, stretching in every direction as far as the eye could see. I stood on its edge and felt myself in my dress turning - subtly, like an early-autumn leaf or a days-old open bottle of red wine - from easy and elegant to overreaching and tarty.”

And then, later, as she so appropriately describes the way I feel at most events involving my in-laws:

“‘I’m good at dinner parties!’ I wanted to shout. ‘Dinner parties are my natural habitat! I am appropriately dressed and good at dinner parties!’”

Cornelia, honey, you’re not alone.

I don’t want to ruin the book for you by telling you much more, since I suck at keeping secrets and will inevitably overshare too much of the plot, but you should definitely read this. Set down War & Peace for a little bit and settle in for some scrumptiosity (a word, I promise!). And Ms. de los Santos, if you’re anything like Cornelia or Clare or any of your other characters (hell, even Piper-like-viper-but-with-a-p) and you’re up for a chat over too much wine, I’d be honored to join you. I can’t wait for your next book to come out.(less)

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May 08, 2008 Julie-Ann rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A great follow-up to "Love Walked In"... your favorite characters plus new ones to fall in love with! I just love De Los Santos's style of writing, it sucks me right in and I want to be friends with her characters. :)

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Feb 23, 2012 smetchie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: hippies-or-hate-or-lurking, gave-me-an-ick-feeling

3 stars? 4 stars? I'm not sure. Some of the writing is terrific. I mean really stop-you-in-your-tracks wonderful. Many lines struck me as so lovely I had to read them over and over.

And yet I'm just not sure how I felt about it overall.

The story is told in 3 different voices and I don't like that. Cornelia, a woman who has just moved from NYC to the suburbs, Piper, a woman of roughly the same age who lives in the neighborhood Cornelia moves to, and Deveraux, a 13-year-old genius boy who moves to...more 3 stars? 4 stars? I'm not sure. Some of the writing is terrific. I mean really stop-you-in-your-tracks wonderful. Many lines struck me as so lovely I had to read them over and over.

And yet I'm just not sure how I felt about it overall.

The story is told in 3 different voices and I don't like that. Cornelia, a woman who has just moved from NYC to the suburbs, Piper, a woman of roughly the same age who lives in the neighborhood Cornelia moves to, and Deveraux, a 13-year-old genius boy who moves to the same town from California with his single mom. (those are some names, huh?) Cornelia's voice, for no apparent reason, is in the first person. I suppose she's supposed to be the protagonist but we aren't treated to more of her intimate thoughts than the other voices, nor did I relate to her perspective any better. If anything, the first person voice is the least honest and intimate of the three. So maybe I don't understand the point of writing in first person. Perhaps there was some reason that went over my head. Or else maybe the author was just having trouble separating the 2 female perspectives. If it was the latter, I think she should have just scrapped the idea.

There is some serious woman-on-woman meanness in this book and, as a rule, that pisses me off. It perpetuates the notion that women are awful to each other. (You may say that's true and literature merely reflects it. But that doesn't mean I have to like it.) By the end you get to know the women better and understand why they're so catty. Sort of. Not really. You grow to like them in spite of their shitty behavior, let's say. A little. OK I didn't grow to like them but I think I was supposed to.

One of the subplots is a young mother of two who's dying of cancer. Some of those chapters I skimmed over, peeking out between my fingers, singing "La La La I Can't Hear You" in my head. Partly because I didn't want to cry on an airplane, which is where I read it, but mostly because it was just too close to home and I'm more of a head-in-the-sand type when it comes to horrible things I can't control.

It was a page-turner for sure. The story is compelling as hell and takes some very interesting twists and turns. Unfortunately, (view spoiler)

Jesus. Where am I going with this!?I only finished it late last night so maybe I'll come back in a week and adjust my rating.

I'm back already. Four stars. Definitely. I don't need a week. I think the fact that those things up there made me mad just proves that I cared and was invested and really liked it.(less)

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Sep 21, 2008 marg rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I had bought both books together not knowing much about them, I didn't even realize they were connected (was actually afraid I had bought a collection of poetry by mistake) so I am happy I read them in the right order. This sequel is better than the first in a lot of ways - the characters have more edge, the plot is less predictable. While the premise (city girl moves to suburbs, insert cliched snarky lines about soccer moms in their SUVS baking muffins for the new neighbor while gossiping about...more I had bought both books together not knowing much about them, I didn't even realize they were connected (was actually afraid I had bought a collection of poetry by mistake) so I am happy I read them in the right order. This sequel is better than the first in a lot of ways - the characters have more edge, the plot is less predictable. While the premise (city girl moves to suburbs, insert cliched snarky lines about soccer moms in their SUVS baking muffins for the new neighbor while gossiping about her behind her back) is not in any way original, it was nice to at least meet some mean people in de los Santos' Sweet Valley world. However, this was another case of overblown characters (villains and heroes well defined) and what really annoyed me was her perpetuating her own weakness, as in, heroine is looking forward to an evening with a friend, but hastens to add, dont get me wrong, I love my husband with all my heart and soul and cherish every moment with him, I just needed some girl time. It's ok, Marisa, we weren't about to call in a relationship specialist or lose starry eyed love for your perfect man and woman with their perfect marriage (as is affirmed by every character who meets them) - in fact, not only is it normal for her to disentangle herself from her unbelievably (you got that right) good looking husband, but it would actually be refreshing if they existed in any mode other than inhumanly perfect - and while they do hit a rather large bump, it's still encased in plastic for the most part and seems removed from reality.
However, while the junior high maturity factor of every good character going to an ivy league while bad characters do not and all that was super irritating, I STILL really enjoyed reading it for its well paced and high quality talent as far as overall narrative and dialogue goes. In this book she does pull a lot of that Piccoult stuff that I cannot stand, setting the scene up to end with that perfect last line or clincher moment or whatever, but if you can roll your eyes past it it's a very enjoyable Shabbos afternoon read.(less)

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Nov 05, 2008 Valerie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Belong to Me is the ultimate chick lit book, and as a bonus it's really well-written. I fell right into the story, and although I read the novel that preceded it (Love Walked In) I don't think it's absolutely necessary - a reader new to Marisa de los Santos could follow this novel just fine.

Back to the chick-lit categorization: it's just so girly. I can get into a girly book as well as the next girl, but I don't think this was written with men in mind (unless the men in question were the type th...more

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Jul 03, 2008 Roxy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: general-fiction, are-you-gonna-make-me-cry

*sigh* finally finished it!! This book was a selection for my non-GR bookclub and not my choice. I'm not going to describe the story line because I suck at that so all you are getting, as usual, is my opinion.

The first half is difficult to read. The author loves to embellish everything. Paragraph upon paragraph of description of something that is not even that important to the storyline. I'd say she spends the first half of the book just describing the characters. I put the book down about halfw...more

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May 18, 2008 EJ rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to EJ by: Barnes and Noble

A group of people with issues meets group of people #2 with issues. A lot of heart breaking situations occur with "witty" lines and "intellectual" references to classical composers, well known authors and artists. What would Chick-lit be with out it?! THEN Predictable twist happens (uh oh wasnt expecting that) and group #1 and #2 are related (suspense music) But no worries, all ends well and has a hollywood ending. With every annoying cheezie line known to man.

I do not know why I continue to re...more

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Apr 15, 2008 melanie (lit*chick) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Utterly readable, even if you haven't read Love Walked In, this story stands alone. The author (a poet) has a lovely fluid style. She makes the reader privy to all of the private thoughts (and this is a VERY thoughtful bunch) and weaves it all together with just enough history and background that the story makes sense. And I especially enjoyed how it explored women's friendships - the work it takes to make friends in adulthood. So often characters are "lifelong" friends or fall easily into frien...more

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Jun 04, 2009 Kim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary

What a sweet story... really, with nice poetic references and beautiful, loving people that don't exist anywhere but in books like this. So, yeah... of course, I hate them.. Mostly because I'm that woman... the urbanite who moved to the suburbs and I'm that woman longing for the security blanket that is estrogen-induced friendship. Of course I didn't have the hot doctor husband and the financial security and BA in Art History, But, you know... those are really just the perks of the story, not t...more

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Jul 21, 2008 Karma rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I LOVED this book! In many ways the plot was unoriginal - finding your true self by not being afraid to deviate from social norms and expectations, women learning to get past stupid assumptions and biases, etc. Sometimes the writing verged on arrogant; either over simplifying the complex or alternately making complex the simple. BUT, then she would put words to a feeling or thought that I didn't even realize I felt or had thought! Her descriptions of motherhood were so beautiful and stunningly t...more

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Apr 18, 2008 Whitney rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Loved, loved, loved, loved, loved LOVED this book. It was the kind of book that I would think about all day... dying to get home and pick it up again. I even started bringing it on my lunch break and reading it in the park-- I couldnt get enough! I can't remember the last book I read that I became so obsessed with.

You have to read Love Walked In before you read this one in order to truly fall head over heels in love with Teo, Cornelia, and Clare... and then in Belong to me you will fall MORE i...more

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Apr 24, 2008 Julie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction

Cornelia, Teo, and Clare from Love Walked In return along with some other lovable (Dev) and questionable (Piper) characters, all of whose lives intersect in a most satisfying way.

In chapter 2, I was afraid this would be a common housewife story. By chapter 3, I liked the book. By chapter 9, I was in love with the story! And by chapter 15 I was up 2 hours past my bedtime trying to get to the end!

Another really good story with well-developed characters from Marisa de los Santos. (and already at...more

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Jun 16, 2008 MP rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

You know when you read a book about women that are friends..and these friends just all fit together in a perfect little group, well this isn't about those storybook friends. This book is about real people. The snob..free spirit..cancer patient..but you learn that really isn't who they are, there is much more to them and you realize how they can be friends..I'm 1/4 way into the book and I think I love these people more than most characters I've ever read. Marisa de los Santos writing is so fluid....more

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May 29, 2008 L.e. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: past-read

So, this is Dr. Teague's( my beloved chemistry professor) daughter in law. She is a poet and this is her second novel. The first Love Walked In was lovely and this is the sequel. She writes so beautifully that sometimes I had to put down the book and relish the last sentence. This is the kind of book that when you finish you hold it out and look at the jacket lovingly. (although i am not a big fan of the cover art on this particular book)

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May 02, 2008 Courtney rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: borrowed, fiction, sequel

I love this author's writing. She's a poet, so everything feels lyrical and perfect. Like all of other books recently, I have to say that I should have reread her first novel, Love Walked In, just to refresh my memory of the characters. (What is with all of the sequels that come out in the summer?) Regardless, great story and characters in this one.

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Dec 30, 2008 Julie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: top-choices

Marisa de los Santos writes the way i could only dream of writing. She is realistic, down to earth, but eloquent and includes well researched references. She is so clearly a poet in her past life.

This book is about 'perfect' lives and family secrets and everything in between. My favorite aspect of her writing is how she can make you feel like you are her friend solely through her words; as if you are experiencing what is happening with her. My favorite part of the book is how right on she desc...more

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Aug 20, 2008 Tiffany rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a book about how people become yours simply because you choose to love them. The characters are real individuals... so unique that their 3 dimensional qualities remind me of the writing of Charles Dickens. There isn't a sentence that comes out of the mouth of any of the characters that doesn't truly belong to them.
Marisa de los Santos is so talented in her ability to express emotion and especially the elusive emotion of love that her writing made me want to weep and cheer at the same ti...more This is a book about how people become yours simply because you choose to love them. The characters are real individuals... so unique that their 3 dimensional qualities remind me of the writing of Charles Dickens. There isn't a sentence that comes out of the mouth of any of the characters that doesn't truly belong to them.
Marisa de los Santos is so talented in her ability to express emotion and especially the elusive emotion of love that her writing made me want to weep and cheer at the same time.
"When he looked up, he said, 'Clare told me about Christmas.' And I swear the boy's face began to shine. I recognized what I saw there; that a person's name could be infinitely precious, that just saying it could make you feel singled out for glory."
My favorite passage is about when one of the characters is six years old. Everyone is swimming at the community pool, but she is afraid of the water and cannot join in. Her eight year old future husband comes up to her and says kindly, "you're missing the whole point of summer," and offers to teach her to swim. And, she talks about how his touch made her feel safe and how she learns to swim and then she says, "When I was no longer six years old, when I was a grown woman whose belief the possibility of safety, while far from shattered had suffered the inevitable hard hit or two, Teo's touch did not displace fear as absolutely as it once had. But it was still true that his skin on mine worked a kind of instant, inexplicable possibly chemical magic. When he touched me, the world fell into alignment -- a laying on of hands, a chiropractic of the soul-- the threat of drowning evaporated, and hope cast its light. I know this sounds dramatic, but what would you have me do about it? Some things are dramatic. Put it this way if you prefer; under Teo's touch, I could believe in happy endings. Or middles. Or beginnings."
There are so many good books, but one of the qualities of great book, in my opinion, is one where the great beauty of the language and the truth of it makes you want to open your heart a little wider and be just a little better. So, if you're looking.. this is one of those rare books.
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Aug 13, 2008 Kristen rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: goodfiction

This book isn't normally something I gravitate toward. It involves suburban housewives, happy families and fairly predictable plot "twists." It also treads dangerously close to the cliche theme of "love and friendship will prevail if we just learn to forgive." Clearly de los Santos' wanted the book's legacy to be uplifting and tidy. That's okay--it just isn't normally my style.

BUT!

I still enjoyed it a good deal. I really liked the main character and found de los Santos' prose believable and not...more

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Jul 25, 2008 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was my first ebook on my Kindle which I think is at least in part what I liked so much about it.

The story is told from 3 different characters points of view with chapters alternating between them. I enjoyed this literary device very much because I thought the characters were well developed, believable and quite interesting. They were also complete enough and different enough that I always knew whose perspective I was reading about. The author did a neat job of allowing us to know what each...more

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Jun 04, 2008 Tamara rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Jodi Picoult fans

Shelves: crowd-pleasers, fiction

I have to preface this review by saying that I am very dense. There is no other explanation for the fact that it took me almost 75 pages to realize this was the sequel to Love Walked In and not just the author's second novel. Sigh.

Similar in style to Jodi Picoult and Anne Tyler (without Picoult's cult following and only if Anne Tyler were prescribed Prozac and a shot of Oprah.) This is one of those books that I find to be perfectly imperfect. I have the desire to dissect it, but in the end, I c...more

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Feb 10, 2009 Suey343 rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As women, we have all been in situations with other women where we were uncomfortable or didn't fit in. The main character, Cornelia, does a great job of using comedy to make light of certain situations that she comes across. It's one of those books where you can quickly make a connection with as you start reading. The theme of friendship and love permeates throughout this book, and the value it plays in each characters' life. I would highly recommend this book.

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May 18, 2013 Carol rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit

I really liked this book, but realized after reading it (from other reviews) that is actually a followup to her other book Love Walked In. It is totally readable as a stand alone book though.

I loved the characters and their relationships. I loved that it was a "chick-lit" book, but wasn't gooey and mushy or overtly sexual (a few lines, but nothing overly graphic). I loved her descriptions...to a point. They painted images I could easily see and imagine. BUT, you can tell the author is a poet, an...more

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Apr 16, 2008 Juli rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: all of you! <3

Recommended to Juli by: the galoshes! or, the author's name being on the cover was enou

Shelves: 2008, favorites, stayed-up-all-night, own-and-read

I have so much love for this book and this author. Lookit the cover! With galoshes! And uneven page ends! Believe it or not, the inside is even better. :P

I bought it on Saturday, and then had so much to do all weekend, that I ended up reading it all night Sunday night, after carrying it around with me everywhere. This is the sequel to Love Walked In, which is possibly my favorite book ever (or at least in a four-way tie :P), and if you haven't read it, go out and get it. Now.

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Jul 13, 2008 Fran rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

i started reading this book last week when i borrowed it from my library. BUT it was only a 7-day loan and no renewals allowed. i read feverishly for several days, and i even bought myself time IN the library for an hour before i had to go home, on the day it was due. but, alas, i have 103 pgs to go and I REALLY want to finish it. but with going on vaca for over a week, i won't be able to take it out again to read over the vaca. i'll be back to finish it SOON!

***********Got the book yesterday***...more

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Aug 09, 2008 Claire rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone who liked Love Walked In

A fantastic follow-up to her first book, Love Walked In. I think I might have even liked Belong to Me more! The book relies on several stock plot points: boy searching for his father, the interweaving of several families in a small town, a girl coming of age, etc. but uses lots of new ideas and unique characters, making it not feel hackneyed at all.

One of the main characters, Cornelia (whom we know from Love Walked In), is a bit self-indulgent at times (not with her actions, but with her descrip...more

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Nov 21, 2008 Ruth rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: recently-read

If you only knew how close this book came to landing on my "aborted" Goodreads shelf . . . I seriously dislike stories about girls or women who are catty & competitive, & this novel starts out that way--sigh. But I stuck with it for a few pages because it was the only book I had on hand just then, & fortunately the tone soon changed. The catty episodes do set up one character for an extreme transformation, which I have to say is not exactly believable, but it's a relief when she beco...more

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Mar 08, 2009 Carla rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book because Gwyn recommended it. I really enjoyed the book. The writing was great and the story line was very touching. I don't know if it is because I'm pregnant or what, but I cried for at least 1/5 of the book. It made me think a lot about women-to-women relationships and being "real".

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Jul 04, 2008 Linda rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is one of the best I've read in a long time. I didn't want it to end, but when it did, it ended perfectly. Even the acknowledgmt. to her husband, "...whose many gifts include changing the way time moves," what a well-loved husband she has. I loved every character so much that it never bothered me to go from one to another. Marisa del los Santos intertwined their lives brilliantly. Teo and Cornelia were a "perfect" couple who met their "trials" head on Piper was a woman you loved to hate; ye...more

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Jun 22, 2009 Amanda rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Pretty good. Insightful writing. Like-able characters. the author has never met an analogy she didn't like which became a bit irritating after a while. Sometimes paragraphs of set up were needed to set up the analogy and put it in context. Still, its a good light summer book.

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Dec 09, 2008 Linda rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: fans of Anne Tyler, Joshilyn Jackson, Lolly Winston

Shelves: fiction, top-ten-of-2008

This is the kind of "family & friendship" book I totally dig. Witty, crisp, well-written (de los Santos is a poet, which comes as no surprise if you've read her) and layered with the dramas of ordinary lives and relationships. Cornelia and Teo, from Love Walked In, move from NYC to a Philadelphia suburb with hopes of starting a family, but it's not so easy for them (especially Cornelia, who is labeled an urban intellectual) to make friends. de los Santos masterfully unmasks readers' preconce...more

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Marisa de los Santos was a poet for a very long time, with an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston. Her first book, FROM THE BONES OUT, a collection of poems, was published in 2000.

She and her husband, writer David Teague, lived in Center City, Philadelphia for a number of years before moving to Wilmington, Delaware in spring of 2003. That summer, Marisa bega...more

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