![]() 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. 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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