My Latest Grievance - by Elinor Lipman (Paperback)

About the Book

From the author of "The Inn at Lake Devine" comes a pitch-perfect novel abouta young woman, too smart for her own good, and the chaos that ensues when herpath crosses that of her glamorous new next-door neighbor.

Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

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.
Bookpage

About the Author

ELINOR LIPMAN is the author of eight previous novels, including The Inn at Lake Devine, and My Latest Grievance, winner of the Paterson Fiction Prize. In 2001 she won the New England Book Award for Fiction. The film Then She Found Me, directed by and starring Helen Hunt, is based on her first novel.