tea-leaf reader

Rogues, ornery females and the odd tea-leaf reader populate the pages of this month’s recommended books, which range across settings including a medieval village, a dystopian future and the landscape of two world wars.

Luz “Little Light” Lopez is a tea-leaf reader and laundress whose dream-like memories of her Indigenous family bring her into New Mexico territory, even as she becomes embroiled in the Colorado case of a Mexican man accused of murder.

Tea-Leaf Reader: You owe it to her to be true to yourself in how much of this you take on.

I've been a sort of Woodward tea-leaf reader since the Watergate days, throughout his various tomes on presidents as the years have passed.

With his late-cycle endorsement of Trump, Thiel was essentially a tea-leaf reader, making a discounted bet on White House access.