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This Is How It Always Is
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January 27, 2017
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January 29, 2017

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Lea Elizabeth Ludwig
I went out of my comfort zone on this one...a book about gender dysphoria. 5 year old Claude, the fifth of five boys in the sweetest, most fun family, tells his parents he is a girl and wants to wear skirts and dresses to Kindergarten. And this wonderful family lets him become who he is. I enjoyed every page of this beautifully written book.
“You never know. You always guess. This is how it always is.”
Anne Brown
2.5 stars

This book raised some interesting questions about parenting and family secrets, but it just didn't grab me. It felt like it was taking forever to get through, and I just wanted it to get to the point. Part of that could have been the unrealistic decisions made by Rosie (most people cannot just keep moving across the country and across the world to escape their problems), or it could have been the author's breathless, run-on sentence style of writing that kept me searching for an ending
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