This is the first book that I've read that delved into the world of adoption from both sides of the story - the parent and the child. Marion and Kirby are excellent characters - both going through some personal growth throughout the story.
Kirby, in the beginning, seems like she's just not very sure of herself, and a big part of that is because she's adopted and doesn't know where she gets a lot of her personality traits from. She feels like an outsider in her adoptive family.
Marion keeps the pregnancy adoption a secret from everyone except her mother until Kirby shows up on her doorstep. Marion also seemed to feel like she was slightly out of place, but she didn't know it until later on in the story. I feel like she grew up a little from when Kirby found her to the end of the story. By the end, I felt like she was a much more mature woman who knew what she wanted.
The story didn't end all neat and tied with a bow - there was still one loose end, but I liked it. I liked coming up with my own assumptions as to what happened after the last page. The only thing that really bothered me was Marion's mother's reactions near the end. But, that's life.
This has been out for a couple of years, if you haven't read it yet, you should read it now.
From the GoodReads website, "The author of five blockbuster novels, Emily Giffin, 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. With a fulfilling career and satisfying relationship, she has convinced everyone, including herself, that her life is just as she wants it to be. But one night, Marian answers a knock on the door . . . only to find Kirby Rose, an eighteen-year-old girl with a key to a past that Marian thought she had sealed off forever. 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.
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. 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."
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