Irresistible: Lisa Grunwald

Reads from Her New Novel

Bestselling author Lisa Grunwald will read from her latest book, The Irresistible Henry House, at the Bunch of Grapes in Vineyard Haven on Monday night. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. “It may be time to anoint Lisa Grunwald a power player in her own right,” wrote The New York Times in an interview with Ms. Grunwald this spring. The story called The Irresistible Henry House “her most ambitious work, and has attracted comparisons to John Irving and E. L. Doctorow.” Set in the middle of the 20th century in a home economics program at a prominent university, where real babies are being used to teach mothering skills to young women, the story traces a young man raised in these unlikely circumstances.

Published by Random House, the book is Ms. Grunwald’s fifth novel. She is no stranger to the Vineyard; she has been a longtime summer resident of Vineyard Haven and worked at the Vineyard Gazette as a cub reporter in the 1970s.