Pocket Full of Poseys

Grace Tingley and Brian Posey are forty-something twins whose lives have gone in very different directions. Grace is a private school teacher in coastal Connecticut, Brian an adventure travel executive in Seattle. Grace nearly won a Rhodes Scholarship at Princeton and was a PhD candidate at Yale when an unexpected pregnancy threw her plans into a tailspin. Brian barely scraped through an obscure New England college and recently married Ella, a lively, pot-smoking realtor, after three years in an intimate relationship with a charismatic man from Jamaica. When their mother Cinny, a widowed charter member of Woodstock Nation, is diagnosed with Parkinsons disease, she opts for an early exit from life and stops eating. Grace and Brian are there for her last days in hospice care, where they learn Cinny has plans for them after shes gone. Theyre to sprinkle her ashes, mixed with their fathers, at a series of exotic locations around the globesome remote, some challengingly public, all known and loved by the Poseys. Joined by Graces husband Jack, a recovering good ol boy lawyer from Clearwater, their daughter Chelsea, recently moved in with a widower twenty years her senior, Ella, and Ellas daughter Sage, a self-described sixteen-year-old nihilistic feminist socialist, Grace and Brian set off around the globe on a funereal odyssey that teaches them more about their parents relationship and about themselves than they find it easy to accept. By turns hilarious, profound, jarring, and poignant, Pocket Full of Poseys bounds dizzily through New Zealand, Thailand, Italy, Switzerland, and England before pulling off at a rest area on the New Jersey Turnpike, as the last of Cinny Poseys secrets are revealed and her survivors confront the strength of the ties that bind them all togetherfor worse and for better.