Marisa de los Santos. (2008). Belong to Me: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio.

Marisa de los Santos. 2008. Belong to Me: A Novel. HarperAudio.

Marisa de los Santos, Belong to Me: A Novel. HarperAudio, 2008.

Marisa de los Santos. Belong to Me: A Novel. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2008.

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     Marisa de los Santos is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning poet with a PhD in literature and creative writing. She lives in Wilmington, Delaware, with her family.

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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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   • content: Cornelia Brown and her husband, Teo, introduced in LOVE WALKS IN, move to the suburbs to find a more relaxed lifestyle and start a family. As they settle in, they make friends, take the pettiness of others in stride, and stumble into the middle of important secrets, one of the biggest of which has Teo at the center. Julia Gibson is an easygoing storyteller who gives the impression of describing events in which she has had a direct part. She is sensitive to the emotion of the characters without overstating it. Her presentation of dialogue and her transition to narrative passages are smooth and well paced. J.E.M. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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     March 31, 2008
     Cornelia Brown, heroine of de los Santos's bestselling Love Walked In
     , returns in a gracefully written if formulaic sophomore effort. Cornelia and her husband, Teo, move to suburban Philadelphia, where she finds it difficult to fit into the sorority-like atmosphere. Despite a bevy of domestic dramas (planning a family among them), Cornelia's first-person chapters are the quietest of the three points of view. Seemingly shallow and vicious, neighbor Piper shows her kinder side as she struggles through her best friend's fight against cancer. Though the extreme of Piper's two-facedness isn't convincing, her moments of sincerity invite genuine empathy. Cornelia also yields narrative time to Dev, a precocious teenager whose father is missing and whose mother develops a friendship with Cornelia. Dev's connection to the story is initially unclear, though he does grow close to Clare, a troubled teenager with an unconventional connection to Cornelia, and a late-breaking development grounds his role more firmly. Though each story line is a good read on its own, they don't always braid nicely, and while the predictable plot wanders into sappiness, the prose is polished and the suburban travails are familiar enough that fans of the women's fiction and higher-brow mommy lit will relate.

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     Starred review from March 1, 2008
     Having met Cornelia Brown in de los Santos's well-reviewed debut, "Love Walked In", we now follow her and her oncologist husband, Teo Sandoval, to suburban Philadelphia. Piper Truitt lives across the street with her husband and two young children. She considers herself the arbiter of style and local propriety. Add to the mix waitress Lake and her son, Dev, who is enrolled in a private academy far superior to his previous California public school. From the outset, Cornelia and Piper are traveling down different paths, while Cornelia and Lake seem to hit it off. Go figure? But there is more beneath the surface of these women and their motivations than the lovely locale can mask. Dev thinks he and his mother moved to the area because his long-lost (and unknown to him) father is there. But how do you go about locating someone who's been gone for 13 years? Then Piper becomes caregiver to her longtime friend Elizabeth, diagnosed with cancer, a role that seems more appealing to Piper than wife to Kyle. These family dynamics collide and reconfigure in a variety of ways that readers will find fascinating. De los Santos keeps us totally engaged with these fragile creatures, who get under our skin and, ultimately, into our hearts. Highly recommended. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 1/08.]Bette-Lee Fox, "Library Journal"

     Copyright 2008 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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—Boston Globe

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