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It’s November 1968, the eve of the presidential election. Women are burning bras; men are burning draft cards. Lara Spaulding has come to Books Inn on the coast of Maine to decide how to move forward after her husband died on an Air Force mission in Vietnam. Each room at the inn pays homage to classic nineteenth-century fiction: The Country of the Pointed Firs, The Turn of the Screw, The Scarlet Letter, Summer, The Yellow Wallpaper. This isn’t the nineteenth century, but the issues raised in these books resonate with the volatile issues of 1968: war, politics, feminism, abortion. As Lara meets others at the inn, she unravels connections between their America and their backstories. Books Inn is a novel about loss and loneliness and about an era much like our own.