This Is How It Always Is

by Laurie Frankel

“It means the fact that that’s the way it is means that keeps being the way it is. It means when a little girl says she wants to be a baseball announcer when she grows up, someone tells her she can’t because there are no female baseball announcers, which means no one grows up to be one. And so on.”

should be a boy job,” said Roo. “They pay better.” “Why?” said Poppy. “The hedge enemy.” Ben didn’t even look up.