![]() ![]() There’s Penn (an author), Rosie (a physician), and their five children: Roo, Ben, twins Rigel and Orion, and their youngest, Poppy. ![]() The book centers on a large family of seven living in Madison, Wisconsin. As a writer myself, I know that titles can add so much to the work as a whole, which is exactly why I was so excited to dive in and find out what Laurie Frankel meant by proclaiming that “this is how it always is. At first, the title read as a nonsensical jumble of the plainest words in the English language: this is how it always is. Oddly enough, it wasn’t the storyline that most intrigued me before picking up this book-it was the title. This Is How It Always Is, a novel by author Laurie Frankel that is based on her own family, takes the reader across a decade in time and as far away as a remote village in Thailand to tell the story of a transgender child* and her family’s efforts to accept, protect, and celebrate her. ![]()
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