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Really great book about the challenges that raising a transgender child brings to a family. Frankel has a transgender child of her own, some of whom the book is based. Similar to Once Upon a River, this book is about the power of storytelling and how it can be used to teach and engender conversations about things that we might not be comfortable with speaking about outright.
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Feb 19, 2021
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I loved it. I loved the details about the family with so many children, I loved the love stories between the parents and between the parents and their children and between the children and their friends, and I loved how the central conflict was (minor spoiler alert) a person vs. self kind of conflict but manifested as person vs. other person, within a family, because things are beautiful and complicated and have potential like that. Wonderful read. Recommend highly to people who are open-minded,
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Can't say enough good things about the writing, characters and tenderness of this family's story. Didn't want to put it down. Didn't want it to end.
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AUTHOR Frankel, Laurie
TITLE This is How It Always Is
DATE READ 09/03/19
RATING 4.5/B+
FIRST SENTENCE
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2017/audio/11 hr
SERIES/STAND-ALONE #
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2019 Reading Goal 132/111;
GROUP READ Reese W & RCR
CHARACTERS The Walsh-Adams Family
TIME/PLACE 2017/WA
COMMENTS Very good! Rosie and Penn have 5 children -- the first 4 are boys and the last is born a boy but decides at a very young age he wants to identify as a girl. Interesting to see how th ...more
TITLE This is How It Always Is
DATE READ 09/03/19
RATING 4.5/B+
FIRST SENTENCE
GENRE/ PUB DATE/PUBLISHER / # OF Fiction/2017/audio/11 hr
SERIES/STAND-ALONE #
CHALLENGE Good Reads 2019 Reading Goal 132/111;
GROUP READ Reese W & RCR
CHARACTERS The Walsh-Adams Family
TIME/PLACE 2017/WA
COMMENTS Very good! Rosie and Penn have 5 children -- the first 4 are boys and the last is born a boy but decides at a very young age he wants to identify as a girl. Interesting to see how th ...more
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