Random House

9781400063000

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Review of ‘The Irresistible Henry House’

Several years ago, author Lisa Grunwald came across a photo online that stopped her cold. It was a smiling baby boy, one of dozens of “practice babies” supplied by an orphanage to the Cornell University home economics program, starting in 1919. Fascinated, Grunwald researched further and found that hundreds of such babies had spent their…

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