Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis

Neil had fancied that the vague estrangement between his mother and her parents had come from Gramma Julie Saxinar's habit of diminutively managing every one within range of her cackling and cheery voice. There had never been real hostility, but the family coolness had kept Neil from any great custom of intimacy with his grandparents.

But he did take one evening during his four-day official mission in Minneapolis to go out to Lake Minnetonka and call on the Saxinars.