The Irresistible Henry House (38 page)
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Authors: Lisa Grunwald
Tags: #Women teachers, #Home economics, #Attachment behavior, #Orphans, #Family Life, #Fiction, #Psychological, #Fiction - General, #American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +, #General
The Irresistible Henry House
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2010 by Lisa Grunwald Adler
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The photograph of this edition is used courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Owing to limitations of space, copyright credits can be found.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data Grunwald, Lisa.
The irresistible Henry House: a novel / Lisa Grunwald.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-58836-988-8.
1. Women teachers—Fiction. 2. Attachment behavior—Fiction. 3. Orphans—Fiction. 4. Home economics—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3557.R837T78 2010
813′.54—dc22 2009019720
v3.0
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Welcome Home, Henry
Chapter 2 - Six Different Lullabies
Chapter 3 - A Dangerous Instrument
Chapter 4 - Give Me the Baby, Dear
Chapter 5 - A Puppy in the Sun
Chapter 6 - You Know More Than You Think You Do
Chapter 7 - The Center of the World
Chapter 8 - He Wants a Cookie
Chapter 1 - Emem
Chapter 2 - Nursery School
Chapter 3 - Alone at Last
Chapter 4 - Miss Fancy and Mickey Mouse
Chapter 5 - Where’s the Baby Going?
Chapter 6 - That Seems Perfectly Obvious
Chapter 7 - You Must Want to Know
Chapter 8 - Cheese!
Chapter 9 - Eastern Standard Time
Chapter 10 - How Could I Not Like You Anymore?
Chapter 11 - Silence
Chapter 1 - Mentally Defective
Chapter 2 - Attachment
Chapter 3 - Art Lessons
Chapter 4 - When It Comes to That
Chapter 5 - Henry and the Falks
Chapter 6 - The Summer of ‘62
Chapter 7 - I Know About My Mother
Chapter 8 - Not Henry’s Anything
Part 4 - The Wonderful World of Color
Chapter 1 - New York
Chapter 2 - California
Chapter 3 - The Feminine Mystique
Chapter 4 - To Help the Medicine Go Down
Chapter 5 - It’s Called a Toke
Chapter 6 - Talk About Disneyland!
Chapter 1 - When She Talks
Chapter 2 - Peace
Chapter 3 - All You Need Is Love
Chapter 4 - So Much Harder Than It Looks
Chapter 5 - Mail Call
Chapter 6 - Not Anybody’s Baby
Chapter 7 - Under the Table at the Scotch of St. James
Chapter 8 - Lost Something, Sweetie?
Chapter 9 - The Most Moving Story Ever Told
Chapter 10 - You Don’t Look Anything Like Her
Chapter 11 - Draw!
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Welcome Home, Henry
Chapter 2 - Six Different Lullabies
Chapter 3 - A Dangerous Instrument
Chapter 4 - Give Me the Baby, Dear
Chapter 5 - A Puppy in the Sun
Chapter 6 - You Know More Than You Think You Do
Chapter 7 - The Center of the World
Chapter 4 - Miss Fancy and Mickey Mouse
Chapter 5 - Where’s the Baby Going?
Chapter 6 - That Seems Perfectly Obvious
Chapter 7 - You Must Want to Know
Chapter 9 - Eastern Standard Time
Chapter 10 - How Could I Not Like You Anymore?
Chapter 1 - Mentally Defective
Chapter 4 - When It Comes to That
Chapter 5 - Henry and the Falks
Chapter 7 - I Know About My Mother
Chapter 8 - Not Henry’s Anything
Part 4 - The Wonderful World of Color
Chapter 3 - The Feminine Mystique
Chapter 4 - To Help the Medicine Go Down
Chapter 5 - It’s Called a Toke
Chapter 6 - Talk About Disneyland!
Chapter 3 - All You Need Is Love
Chapter 4 - So Much Harder Than It Looks
Chapter 6 - Not Anybody’s Baby