Reed Thomas
Reed Thomas - Pocket Full Of Poseys - Paperback
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Description: 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 Ph D 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 Parkinson's 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 she's gone. They re to sprinkle her ashes mixed with their father's at a series of exotic locations around the globe some remote some challengingly public all known and loved by the Poseys. Joined by Grace's 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 Ella's 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 Posey's secrets are revealed and her survivors confront the strength of the ties that bind them all together for worse and for better.
Title: Pocket Full Of Poseys
Author(s): Reed Thomas
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Barcode: 9780825310263
Pages: 370 Pages
Publication Date: 9/19/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: 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 Ph D 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 Parkinson's 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 she's gone. They re to sprinkle her ashes mixed with their father's at a series of exotic locations around the globe some remote some challengingly public all known and loved by the Poseys. Joined by Grace's 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 Ella's 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 Posey's secrets are revealed and her survivors confront the strength of the ties that bind them all together for worse and for better.
Title: Pocket Full Of Poseys
Author(s): Reed Thomas
Publisher: Beaufort Books
Barcode: 9780825310263
Pages: 370 Pages
Publication Date: 9/19/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
