5/10/2023 0 Comments The inn at lake devineIn this beguiling novel, Elinor Lipman charts her heroine's fixation with a small bastion of genteel anti-Semitism, a fixation that will have wildly unexpected consequences on her romantic life. For twelve-year-old Natalie, who has a stubborn sense of justice, the words are not a rebuff but an infuriating, irresistible challenge. Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles. But when Natalie Marx's mother inquires about summer accommodations in Vermont, she gets the following reply: The Inn at Lake Devine is a family-owned resort, which has been in continuous operation since 1922. It's 1962 and all across America barriers are collapsing. Think Jane Austen in the Catskills" ( Chicago Tribune). This "tale of delicious revenge" ( USA Today) is also "a punchy little comedy of manners.
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