This Is How It Always Is explores the travails of a modern family, where challenges about a child's gender are the same as any other struggles of growing up.” ―Shelf Awareness. “A bold, honest, heartbreaking story about the choices parents make, and how life goes on, but not always according to plan.

It's a story about the challenges of parenting and love, period...This beautiful story is deeply personal, a heart-rending glimpse of an author writing her way ...

4 janv. 2017 · Drawing from her own experiences, the author explores how the family reacts to the realization that Claude (now Poppy) is transgender. Rosie and ...

It explores how difficult it is to decide upon the best course, not only for the transgender child, but also for the rest of the family. Frankel's story is ...

“This Is How It Always Is isn't only a novel about the challenges of life with an atypical child. It's a story about the challenges of parenting and love, ...

28 avr. 2022 · THIS IS HOW IT ALWAYS IS depicts a family of seven—physician mother Rosie, writer father Penn and their five children who are—to use the phrase ...

10 févr. 2017 · Her new novel, “This Is How It Always Is,” centers on a young boy who decides he is a girl. The fictional family lives in Seattle, just like ...

30 janv. 2017 · Writer Laurie Frankel has written a novel about a family with five boys in which the youngest feels he's something entirely different — a ...

The central story unfurls over a single event-choked year, begun by Wendy, who unlatches a closed adoption and springs on her family the boy her stuffy married ...

When Claude, who has always resisted stereotypical male behaviors, wants to wear dresses to kindergarten, Rosie and Penn help their young child deal with ...