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The Pursuit of Alice Thrift
Elinor Lipman
★★★★· Published 2003· 307 pages· read 2023
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 Inn at Lake Devine (Vintage Contemporaries)
Elinor Lipman
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.
The Accidental Tourist
Anne Tyler
A travel writer who hates leaving home, and the chaotic dog trainer who shakes him loose. One of Tyler's most beloved, and I get why.
The Pleasing Hour
Lily King
King's debut, about a young American au pair for a family in France with its own quiet fault lines. You can already feel the writer she'd become.