Off to Join the Circus

What happens to the close-knit Pinsky family of suburban Washington, D.C., when a relative returns after 64 years?Adele Pinsky ran away as a teenager back in 1954, perhaps to join a circus. The repercussions from her departure reverberated down the generations, affecting her younger brother, Howard, now a 75-year-old retired lawyer; his educator wife, Marilyn; their three daughters; and their two teenaged grandsons. Adele s reappearance in 2018, at a moment when the family is preparing for the younger grandson s bar mitzvah and the birth of the middle daughter s baby, upends the Pinsky family s assumptions about one another in hilarious and poignant ways.