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A seat selection can profoundly shape an experience, can’t it? Which is why most people have seating preferences. We care about where we sit. But what about who we sit by? Wherever you sit or stand, you have an opportunity to influence those around you. The question is, will you? And what will your influence be? The premise of this book is that every “seat” offers an opportunity.

After decades apart, the five siblings find themselves together again at their ailing mother’s bedside, caught in a deadlocked feud over her hospice care. Into the morass steps Murron Teinetoa, one of their bastard children, who carries an idealistic hope of finally fitting in among her estranged relatives.In an interweaving narrative, Malae portrays the Felices in their formative years of the fifties; he excavates the personal lives of the siblings in the eighties and nineties; and he follows Murron in the present as she raises her son as a single mother.