THE POSSIBILITIES

Written with all the charm, humor and sadness that made THE DESCENDANTS such a hit both as a novel and a film (with George Clooney starring), THE POSSIBILITIES tells the story of the fracturing and healing that takes place within a family struck by tragedy.

Sarah St. John, a single mother, is reeling: 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. Sarah is trying her best to go through the stages—the anger, the sadness, the letting go. Her father, a retiree who lives with her, urges Sarah to go back to work at Breckenridge’s local morning TV show. Her best friend, a recent divorcee who always manages to say the wrong things, convinces Sarah to sort through Cully’s belongings. Sarah has choice words for both of them. She tries to keep her grief at bay, masking her pain with a sarcasm that even she hates to hear. Perhaps it’s temporary….and the only way forward? Slowly, Sarah is coming to terms with a world without her son in it. But then a girl named Kit appears on Sarah’s doorstep—and she’s carrying a secret that will change their lives irrevocably. Told in Kaui’s unsentimental and refreshingly wry style, this uplifting novel asks difficult questions about what we will risk to keep our loved ones close.