{"product_id":"pocketful-of-poseys-9780825310263","title":"Pocketful of Poseys","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen your dying mother has one last request, how can you say no?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Grace Tingley and Brian Posey are forty-something twins whose lives have gone in very different directions. Grace, now a private school teacher in coastal Connecticut, was a PhD candidate at Yale when an unexpected pregnancy threw her plans into a tailspin. Brian, an adventure travel executive in Seattle, barely scraped through an obscure New England college and recently married Ella, after three years in an intimate relationship with a charismatic man from Jamaica. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e When their widowed mother Cinny, a charter member of Woodstock Nation, is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, Grace and Brian are there for her last days in hospice care. This is where Cinny reveals her staggering plan for the siblings: 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Joined by their own immediate families, Grace and Brian set off on a funereal odyssey that uncovers more about their parents' relationship, and themselves, than the twins find it easy to admit. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy turns hilarious, profound, jarring, and poignant, \u003ci\u003ePocketful of Poseys\u003c\/i\u003e bounds dizzily across the United States to New Zealand, Thailand, Italy, and more, as the last of Cinny Posey's secrets are exposed, and her survivors are forced to confront the strength of the ties that bind them all together--for worse and for better.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Beaufort Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780825310263\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 370","brand":"Thomas Reed","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43059750109365,"sku":"9780825310263","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a1799da2-84b9-48ba-a597-8e3cea3ac341.jpg?v=1690297920","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pocketful-of-poseys-9780825310263","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}