It's 1962 and Natalie Marx is shocked when her mother receives this reply to her enquiry about summer accommodation in Vermont: 'Our guests who feel most comfortable here, and return year after year, are Gentiles.'
It was not complicated, as her mother pointed out. 'They had a hotel; they didn't want Jews. We were Jews.'
For the intrepid twelve-year-old Natalie, the words are an infuriating, irresistible challenge. She manages to wangle an invitation to join a friend on holiday there - and, as her obsession begins with the family that has excluded her, she sets in train events which will change her life, and which will tie her forever to the eccentric family who run the Inn at Lake Devine
ISBN: | 9780755337675 |
Publication date: | 1st November 2007 |
Author: | Elinor Lipman |
Publisher: | Headline Review an imprint of Headline Publishing Group |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 311 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Love and relationships Narrative theme: Social issues Contemporary lifestyle fiction Family Drama Humorous Fiction |