The Lace Reader: A Novel
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Every gift has a price . . . every piece of lace has a secret.
Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations. Now the disappearance of two women is bringing Towner back home to Salem—and is bringing to light the shocking truth about the death of her twin sister.
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Brunonia Barry. (2009). The Lace Reader: A Novel. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Brunonia Barry. 2009. The Lace Reader: A Novel. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Brunonia Barry, The Lace Reader: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2009.
MLA Citation (style guide)Brunonia Barry. The Lace Reader: A Novel. HarperCollins, 2009.
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Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations. Now the disappearance of two women is bringing Towner back home to Salem—and is bringing to light the shocking truth about the death of her twin sister.
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"A spine-tingler set in Salem...[with] an irresistible pull...The Lace Reader is tailor-made for a boisterous night at the book club." — People (People Pick)
"[A] richly imagined saga of passion, suspense, and magic." — Time magazine
"Suspenseful and literary catnip-for-book-clubs...while it's surprisingly gritty for having "lace" in the title, we're calling this now as the beach read of '08." — New York magazine
"An engrossing modern-day twist on the classic Gothic novel....the story both astonishes and satisfies. In short, The Lace Reader is great entertainment." — Tampa Tribune
"Gripping...a marvelously bizarre cast of characters (living and dead) in a uniquely colorful town." — Washington Post Book World
"Finely rendered moments make this a novel to savor—a story as textured as it is imaginative... a story that readers will find as lovely as a swatch of handmade lace." — Rocky Mountain News
"Brunonia Barry has pulled off a major feat with her debut, The Lace Reader: It's a gorgeously written literary novel that's also a doozy of a thriller, capped with a jaw-dropping denouement that will leave even the most careful reader gasping." — Dallas Morning News
"What makes Brunonia Barry's compulsively readable debut even more interesting is the spice added by fillips both psychic and supernatural." — Denver Post
"The Lace Reader casts an enthralling spell...As The Lace Reader unspools, we are drawn into a whirling vortex of deceit. Barry untangles these confusing strands of mystery with an artful precision." — Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Barry excels at capturing the feel of smalltown life, and balances action with close looks at the characters' inner worlds. Her pacing and use of different perspectives show tremendous skill and will keep readers captivated all the way through." — Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Surprise endings are tough to pull off—too often they aren't a surprise to anyone but the main character. To Barry's credit, she genuinely got me." — Christian Science Monitor
"An ambitious debut. Unusual and otherworldly, this is a blizzard of a story which manages to pull together its historical, supernatural and psychiatric elements. A survivor's tale of redemption." — Kirkus Reviews
"Barry does a fantastic job of sketching out her characters. The Whitney women, one and all, are intriguingly real." — San Antonio Express-News
"A 'romance' in the Nathaniel Hawthorne sense of the word a dark tale of sin and guilt that blends the mundane and the fantastic, with a glimmer of redemptive hope at its core that all the Gothic trappings cannot obscure." — Tulsa World
"Barry has written a meditative, lyric novel that in its discursive storytelling style full of digressions and expository sections on interesting facts will appeal to people who enjoy savoring a book one section at a time." — Raleigh News & Observer
"The Lace Reader unravels a magical, yet tragic family's tale...Barry has cleverly and delightfully set us up. With one fell swoop, she cuts the last thread, and the characters she has so carefully created unravel to reveal secrets we had not even begun to guess." — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"[For] fans of Dennis Lehane's Shutter Island, Chris Bohjalian's The Double Bind." —...
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In Barry's captivating debut, Towner Whitney, a dazed young woman descended from a long line of mind readers and fortune tellers, has survived numerous traumas and returned to her hometown of Salem, Mass., to recover. Any tranquility in her life is short-lived when her beloved great-aunt Eva drowns under circumstances suggesting foul play. Towner's suspicions are taken with a grain of salt given her history of hallucinatory visions and self-harm. The mystery enmeshes local cop John Rafferty, who had left the pressures of big city police work for a quieter life in Salem and now finds himself falling for the enigmatic Towner as he mourns Eva and delves into the history of the eccentric Whitney clan. Barry excels at capturing the feel of smalltown life, and balances action with close looks at the characters' inner worlds. Her pacing and use of different perspectives show tremendous skill and will keep readers captivated all the way through.
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Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations. Now the disappearance of two women is bringing Towner back home to Salem—and is bringing to light the shocking truth about the death of her twin sister.
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