"When a person grows up, they are plagued by questions about themselves and their essence, chief among them: To whom and to whom do we belong? Do we belong to where we were born, or where we grew up? Are our ancestors' roots our belonging? Or are they where our memories were born and our feelings crystallized? Does belonging change with time, or is it something fixed, "planted" within us from birth, unchanged by feelings and circumstances? A novel that raises questions within us as we follow its heroine from time to time and from place to place, until it leads us to the answer: To whom do we say, "To you, I belong?"
