As Natalie tries to enter the world that has excluded her-and succeeds through the sheerest of accidents- The Inn at Lake Devine becomes a delightful and provocative romantic comedy full of sparkling social mischief. In 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. From the bestselling author of The Inn at Lake Devine ('Rivals her own best work for its understanding of the way smart, opinionated people stumble toward happiness'-Glamour) and Isabels Bed ('Its Fannie Farmer for the soul. 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).
Her personal hero is Anne Frank, and she shares the diarists stubbornness.
This "tale of delicious revenge" ( USA Today) is also "a punchy little comedy of manners. Our heroine Natalie Marx is a firecracker.
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