The Possibilities

In this highly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of The Descendants , a grieving mother struggles to overcome her sonâÈçs death, when a strange girl enters her life with a secret that changes them both forever. Sarah St. John, a single mother, is reeling from grief: Three months ago, her twenty-one-year-old son, Cully, died in an avalanche near their home in the ski resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado. As Sarah tries her best to go through the stagesâÈ'the anger, the sadness, the letting goâÈ'she has trouble keeping her grief at bay and moving on with life. Her father, a retiree who has become addicted to QVC, urges Sarah to go back to work at BreckenridgeâÈçs local morning show. Her best friend, a recent divorcee who always manages to say the wrong things, convinces Sarah to sort through CullyâÈçs belongings. Slowly, she comes to terms with a world without the swish of her sonâÈçs ski pants or the rolling of his skateboard outside her window. Then a girl named Kit appears on SarahâÈçs doorstepâÈ'and sheâÈçs carrying CullyâÈçs child. The Possibilities is a tender and darkly funny story about the fracturing and healing that takes place within a family after tragedy. Told in Kaui Hart HemmingsâÈçs unsentimental and refreshingly wry styleâÈ'praised as âÈêaudaciously comicâÈë by The New Yorker âÈ'this uplifting novel asks difficult questions about what we risk to keep our loved ones close.

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