“Fordyce captures the complexities of both love and forgiveness as well as the painful ways the events of the past can't help but color our present day lives. Belonging is a wise, uplifting, and deeply compassionate novel with characters so vivid they feel like part of your own family.”

Stacey Swann, author of Olympus, Texas

"Belonging is a moving and original story of a girl coming of age and learning who she is in a family wracked with tension, set against a California landscape from the seventies to the present, chronicling the history of that time and place as much as its indelible characters. Jill Fordyce is a sensitive and beautiful writer and a novelist to watch.”

Malena Watrous, author of If You Follow Me