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The Inn at Lake Devine (Vintage Contemporaries)
Elinor Lipman
★★★★· Published 1998· 324 pages· read 2020
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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A prickly, socially clueless surgical intern gets courted by a fast-talking charmer. Lipman is so good at awkward, funny people.
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The Tull family, wounded and prickly, told through the meals that never quite go right. One of Tyler's most bittersweet.
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An Irish-Catholic family in New York, seen through the kids being shuttled to their grandmother's apartment. McDermott makes the ordinary ache.