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This Is How It Always Is
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May 1, 2019
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May 31, 2019
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Our monthly read for May 2019 (a book about a family)

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Miquela
Oct 29, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Loved this

I could have read it in one sitting but I made it last all weekend and now I am sad it is over. A bit mushy but the hard subject makes room for the softness.
Chrissy
Rosie and Penn have five growing sons. At least, that's what they think.

When their youngest child, Claude, is five years old, he starts telling them that when he grows up, he wants to be a girl scientist. He wants to be a girl doctor... he wants to be a girl.

Rosie and Penn are very present parents. They are very liberal people. They are open-minded and at first just have a gender-neutral household. Sure, Claude can wear a dress if he wants to. His grandmother buys him a pink bikini and they don'
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chrisa
Jun 22, 2020 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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This is an amazing novel about one child's path to discovering their identity as well as that child's family's journey with them. I really enjoyed this book but it took me a while to read it, in part because I was absorbing the writing. I am looking forward to reading more by this author. This book felt magical in part because of the fairy tales told. ...more
Megan
This is one of the best books I’ve read in a while! To me, it was a beautiful story of parenting.
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