elinor lipman's the inn at lake devine
taking place in the 1960s and 70s, the story revolves around a little (jewish) girl's semi-obsession with an inn in vermont that doesn't allow jewish guests. this is a lighter read than that makes it sound--definitely one for the airplane or for killing time reading in the sun (did you guess that those are the circumstances under whcih i read it?). side note for fellow amateur foodies: the main character grows up to be a chef so there are lots of nice scenes involving cooking.
i bought this at the scala booksale. i'm totally going to be up for something light right after exams.
ReplyDeletewell, it's not TOTALLY light. but mostly it is. anyway, looking forward to see what you think of it . . . the cynical part of me thinks it probably would have been marketed as chick lit had it been published a few years later (and was, y'know, contemporary, and didn't have major plotlines involving antisemitism).
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