Teaser Tuesdays: The Inn at Lake Devine

This week my teaser lines come from Elinor Lipman's The Inn at Lake Devine (first published in 1999). I read this one earlier this year and loved it; should be getting a review posted sometime soon (I'm trying to play catch-up this week). In this snippet (from page 32 of the paperback edition), it's the summer of 1962, and teenaged Natalie Marx and her mother are packing, getting Natalie ready to go away for a week's visit to the inn mentioned in the book's title:

We pressed and packed for days: Bermuda shorts and Villager shirts; a sleeveless shirtwaist dress of a muted plaid with a braided rope belt; a new Catalina bathing suit in blue jersey; a terry-cloth cover-up piped in pinpoint blue gingham; tops, shorts, and something then in fashion called a skort. New Keds and new Peds. A bathrobe of yellow seersucker, and two new pairs of baby dolls. A white cable-knit cardigan for cool evenings and a Radcliffe sweatshirt for cool days.

Gosh, that takes me back! Never owned a skort, but everything else on the list was part of my wardrobe in '62. Well, maybe not the Radcliffe sweatshirt -- that would have been a little exotic for a San Antonio girl back then.


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