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Lisa Grenwald is the author of The Evolution of Annabelle Craig, a novel.

I really loved this episode. I loved getting to know Lisa.

I felt like we knew each other in a prior life, or I don't even know, but it was great.

Lisa is the author of seven novels, including time after time, the irresistible Henry House,

and the theory of everything. Along with her husband, former Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen Adler,

she edited the anthologies The Marriage Book, Women's Letters, and Letters of the Century.

Grenwald is an occasional essayist and runs a side hustle called Procrastination Arts, where she sells the other things she makes with pencils and paper.

She lives in New York City.

Welcome, Lisa. Thank you so much for coming on Moms Don't Have Time to

read books to discuss the evolution of Annabelle Craig. Congrats. Thank you so much for having me.

I'm really, really pleased to be here. Ah, it's a joy. So tell listeners what your book is about,

if you don't mind. It's a book about a young woman who's living in a small mountain town in East Tennessee in the 1920s.

She's grown up on a strawberry farm with her parents who are devoted to each other and devoted to her and devoted to the Methodist Church.

And it's a very, very happy, beautiful childhood until both her parents die from the flu.

And she has to move to a boarding house. She has to get a job. She's only 16. And she thinks

nothing great is ever going to happen to her again. She thinks that she will never be loved.

And along comes George Craig, a lawyer from another town who's handsome and smart and wonderful and literally sweeps her off her feet into this lovely pond that is in their neighborhood. And he marries her in three months. And again, she thinks she's going to have the life that she expected to have, she wanted to have.

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