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    My name is Towner Whitney. No, that's not exactly true. My real first name is  Sophya.Never believe me. I lie all the time.
    Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of The Lace Reader, hailsfrom a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, andwho have guarded a history of secrets going back generations, but the disappear-ance of two women brings Towner home to Salem and the truth about the death ofher twin sister to light.

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