
Where We Belong
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Vanessa Johansson
Fourteen-year-old Angie and her mom are poised at the edge of homelessness...again. The problem is her little sister, Sophie. Sophie has an autism-like disorder and a tendency to shriek. No matter where they live, home never seems to last long. Until they move in with Aunt Vi, across the fence from a huge, black Great Dane who changes everything.
Sophie falls in love immediately and begins to imitate the "inside of the dog", which, fortunately, is a calm place. The shrieking stops. Everybody begins to breathe again. Until Paul Inverness, the dog's grumpy, socially isolated owner, moves to the mountains, and it all begins again. Much to Angie's humiliation, when they're thrown out of Aunt Vi's house, Angie's mom moves the family to the mountains after Paul and his dog. There, despite a 50-year difference in their ages, Angie and Paul form a deep friendship - the only close friendship either has known. Angie is able to talk to him about growing up gay, and Paul trusts Angie with his greatest secret, his one dream.
When the opportunity arrives, Angie decides to risk everything to help Paul's dream come true, even their friendship and her one chance at a real home - the only thing she's dreamed of since her father was killed. A place she can never be thrown out of. A place where she can feel she belongs. By the best-selling author of Don't Let Me Go, When I Found You, and Walk Me Home, Where We Belong is a poignant, heartfelt, and uplifting story about finding your place in the world no matter how impossible it seems.
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I really enjoyed the relationship in this book between the main character and the "lonely neighbor. Overall I would recommend this book.
Interesting book
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A story a little too hard to get into
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Drags on.
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Wonderful Story
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I could’ve get to another story fast enough I like him especially for my long ride to and from work I find it very relaxing
Pleasantly surprised!
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On every level a pleasure
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Good read
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Next, the whole teenage coming out piece was just so-so. There was really no relateable relationships or angst. That would have been a great way to add some layers to this story.
There should have been more fighting with the mom, instead of the lame drama between Paul and Angie. Angie's mom should have been crying and screaming and desperate for understanding. She was a homeless mother of an autistic child and a teenage girl... her "listen up kido!" speeches were not real for a person in her circumstances.
Paul was not admirable in my opinion. He learned lessons at the heels of a teenager and didn't really come to life for me until the very end of the book. What's the use of being old if all you have to teach someone is how to fish?
The narrator did a good job with the main character, but all the characters sounded the same.
I expected a lot from this book and it just didn't deliver the way I anticipated. I didn't even cry when the dog died. It just lacked the depth and layers and complexities it was capable of.
Wasted Angst
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Wonderful
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Story offered nice escape
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