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.
