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I listened to this one. So well done.
This is the story of a family with four boys. The mother, pregnant with the fifth, is hoping for a girl- and they get Claude, an intelligent, sweet child who wears dresses and earrings and pink bikinis. His parents only want their children to be happy.
Claude finds kindergarten troubling. Rosie, the mother, finds their predicament troubling as she identifies with a case in the ER. Penn, their as yet unpublished father, helps process their lives through his ongoing bedtime story.
At one point, th ...more
Claude finds kindergarten troubling. Rosie, the mother, finds their predicament troubling as she identifies with a case in the ER. Penn, their as yet unpublished father, helps process their lives through his ongoing bedtime story.
At one point, th ...more
For 75% of the time I was in love with this book. It got me thinking about parenting, gender, family secrets—honestly, I was 4/5 or even 5/5 stars happy with it for the first couple hundred pages. Then the last quarter of it completely lost me—it felt too fake, and not only the genuineness of the story, but even the dialogue started to come up short.
Apr 03, 2018
Anna
marked it as to-read
Mar 31, 2022
Rebekah
marked it as to-read
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