A Novel

The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry

Set in modern-day Salem, Mass, a family of women divine the future by reading patterns in lace. Told partly by third-person, partly by unreliable narrator, this book has several interesting ideas, but at first reading, I thought it not as tight a novel as I would like. Maybe it would have helped if I hadn't had to keep putting it down for other things, and reading it over a span of two weeks when I could have read it in 3-4 days.