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The Whitney family is legendary in Salem, Massachusetts. They are said to be mad as hatters for three generations running, but the women in the family are the best fortune tellers around. Towner Whitney, the protagonist of Brunonia Barry's The Lace Reader, is perhaps the oddest of them all. She's been gone from Salem for fifteen years, but when she returns after her great-aunt's death, people are still whispering about her. Towner's return is a catalyst for reckonings that have been a long time coming...
Read the rest of my review at Summer Reading Project.