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My Latest Grievance

Elinor Lipman

256 Pages

On-Sale Date: 08/05/2007

ISBN: 9780618872350

Trim Size: 5.500in x 8.250in x 0.800in

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My Latest Grievance stars the beguiling teenager Frederica Hatch, the “Eloise of Dewing College.” Born and raised in the dormitory of this small women’s college and chafing under the care of “the most annoyingly evenhanded parental team in the history of civilization,” Frederica is starting to feel that her life is stiflingly snug. That all changes with the arrival on campus of a new dorm mother, the glamorous Laura Lee French, the frenetic center of her own universe.

Elinor Lipman is the award-winning author of sixteen books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Inn at Lake Devine, Isabel’s Bed, I Can’t Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays, On Turpentine Lane, Rachel to the Rescue, and Ms. Demeanor, a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Her first novel, Then She Found Me, was adapted into a film directed by and starring Helen Hunt, with Bette Midler, Colin Firth, and Matthew Broderick. Lipman was the 2011–12 Elizabeth Drew Professor of Creative Writing at Smith College and divides her time between Manhattan and the Hudson Valley.

Completely irresistible. Expect high demand for this novel and renewed interest in Lipman’s previous seven. Highly recommended.
Library Journal Starred

A novel of warmth, wisdom, love, and redemption that is funny and fun to read.
Booklist, ALA

Up there at the top is where this enchanting, infinitely witty yet serious, exceptionally intelligent, wholly original and Austen-like stylist belongs.
The Washington Post

Lovable, psychologically intricate… Bittersweet farce.
The New York Times Book Review

May be Lipman’s best work so far… Every page offers laugh-out-loud dialogue…So entertaining you’re sorry to see it end.
The Seattle Times

This is not-to-be-missed reading.
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