This Is How It Always Is
A family of five sons rearranges itself around the youngest, who knows she is a girl, and around the secret they choose to keep.
The Walsh-Adams family has five sons, and the youngest, Claude, wants to be a girl. Frankel follows the parents as they move house, keep a secret, and discover how much protecting a child can shade into hiding them. Written by a novelist raising a transgender daughter, it is domestic rather than polemical, alive to the comedy of a chaotic household, and honest that the family gets things wrong while trying hard to get them right.
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Reese Witherspoon
Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected.
Book Club · October 2018
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