When struggling journalist Leo Finch returns to his small Ohio hometown, he finds his father has hatched a scheme to sell a bizarre family heirloom: a massive carved throne with snarling badgers and faded green velvet. But the chair holds more than bad memories. Enter Agatha Finch, an eighty-seven-year-old whirlwind who's spent sixty-seven years searching for it. What follows is a heartwarming, hilarious journey through family secrets, a century-old theft, and the discovery that some things—like badgers and stubborn Finches—are worth holding onto forever.