BOOK NEWS
What do you do when you discover your whole life was a lie? This is the theme explored in Mary Carter's new novel, My Sister's Voice. The summary says: "At 28, Lacey Gears is exactly where she wants to be. An up-and-coming, proudly deaf artist in Philadelphia, she's in a relationship with a wonderful man and rarely thinks about her difficult childhood in a home for disabled orphans. That is, until Lacey receives a letter that begins, "You have a sister. A twin to be exact..." Learning her identical, hearing twin, Monica, experienced the normal childhood she was denied resurrects all of Lacey's grief, and she angrily sets out to find Monica and her biological parents. But the truth about Monica's life, their brief shared past, and the reason for the twins' separation is far from simple. And for every one of Lacey's questions that's answered, others are raised." My Sister's Voice is out in May. Carter is currently working on her next novel, The Pub Across the Pond, about an American woman who swears off all Irish men only to learn she's won a pub in Ireland.