"So what are we going to do...just watch each other die off or what?"

First there were twelve; then there were ten. As the sisterhood of the Rosedale Tea Company sees their numbers diminishing, the remaining women seek guidance as they wonder about the future of their small band of seekers. They receive their guidance in the form of a divine invitation. The task the ladies are asked to accomplish is like nothing they-or you-have ever encountered before.

A careful, clever, and compassionate contemporary novel, "The Rosedale Tea Company" follows a group of older women who together have...