Lace reader / Brunonia Barry 360 p.

Towner Whitney comes from a clan of Salem women who can read one’s future from lace patterns.  She left under a cloud of trouble and reluctantly returns when 85 year old Aunt Eva disappears.  Towner professes to be an unreliable narrator; alas she had shock treatment for hallucinations.  Family secrets, complex family relations, prophetic powers, and past trauma yields twists around every corner from the evangelizing ex-husband of Towner’s mother, Emma; to Aunt May hermetic life on an island; and, her twin’s suicide.