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Ms. Demeanor
Elinor Lipman
★★★★★· Published 2022· 352 pages· read 2023
A lawyer under house arrest strikes up a romance with a neighbor in the same boat, and starts cooking. Breezy and charming, classic Lipman.
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A Jewish girl becomes quietly obsessed with a Vermont inn that won't take Jewish guests. Lipman turns prejudice into something wry and human without letting it off the hook.
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