This "tale of delicious revenge" (USA Today) is also "a punchy
little comedy of manners.... Think Jane Austen in the Catskills"
(Chicago Tribune).
It's 1962 and all across America barriers are collapsing. 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. Our guests
who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are
Gentiles. For twelve-year-old Natalie, who has a stubborn sense of
justice, the words are not a rebuff but an infuriating, irresistible
challenge.
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. 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.