I had started something about a neighborhood, and I though, I’ll put some Jews in there. Was this a big factor in writing this book?Įlinor Lipman: It was a very big factor. Phil Brown: In the Acknowledgements, the reader learns that your mother indeed got a letter from a restricted hotel denying your family accommodations because you were Jewish.
Elinor Lipman has tackled some thorny issues such as Antisemitism and intermarriage. Natalie, a newly graduated chef, stays and helps cook and tend the mourners, cementing Natalie’s attachment to the Vermont hotel. Robin is later engaged to one of the son’s of the Inn’s owners, but dies in a car crash on the way to the wedding. But revenge gets tempered by a later visit when she accompanies Robin, a gentile summer camp friend and her family who just happen to be long-time vacationers at the Inn. Natalie Marx, incensed at the family’s 1962 exclusion from the Inn at Lake Devine, plans revenge. An interview with Elinor Lipman, author of The Inn At Lake DevineĮlinor Lipman’s THE INN AT LAKE DEVINE (1998 Random House $23.95 1999 Vintage $12) links the culture of two amazingly different resorts–the large Jewish Halseeyon in the Catskills and the small anti-Semitic Inn at Lake Devine in Vermont.
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